Mothers’ day statement from the CPP

“God is busy, so He created mothers”. This saying beautifully describes the unconditional and indefatigable love and care that mothers and women, give us daily. It is fitting that at least once a year, we find time to celebrate and appreciate our mothers, living and departed, everywhere in the world. Mothers, we do not have the requisite words and actions to acknowledge fully, all you have done and continue to do for us; but please accept a heartfelt ‘Thank you!’ from all of us.

On this year’s celebration of Mothers’ Day, the CPP wishes to call to mind, the anguish of Mad. Suwaiba who is yet to find out what happened to the baby she gave birth to, earlier this year. Her experience of motherhood has been incomplete, wilfully cut short by unknown forces. The hospital’s and our government’s responses to her plight raise many questions about her inalienable rights as a woman and a citizen, and those of her ‘lost’ baby. Those questions remain unanswered and clearly reflect our Government’s and that hospital’s authorities’ lack of care and respect for mothers as citizens.

We also remember the on-going pain of the mothers of the 276 school girls recently abducted from Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria. We hold them all in our thoughts and pray for the safe return of their daughters. The CPP calls on the governments of Ghana and Nigeria in particular, and Africa in general, to prioritise the welfare of mothers and protect them in word and deed.

The CPP wishes all mothers everywhere, both biological and adopted, a very happy and blessed Mothers’ Day! Every day you prove that you are truly God’s deputies! We salute you


SIGNED:

Hajia Hamdatu Haruna
CPP National Women’s Organiser
CPP WOMENS LEAGUE