By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
CEE-HOPE executive director, Betty Abah, has advised actress, Etinosa Idemudia, to focus more on her campaign for free Ventolin for Asthma patients instead of kicking against free menstrual pads for girls.
Abah is a campaigner for free menstrual pads for girls.
Etinosa had posted on her Instastories that there are more relevant things to fight for than free menstrual pads for girls, like free Ventolin Inhalers, arguing that no one has ever died of a bloodstain.
But Abah advised her against making the unfair comparison.
She said: “It is really unfair to millions of women and girls who are suffering from period poverty all over the world. The fact that people are fighting for them does not affect her own aspiration to fight for her own cause.
“The people that have Asthma, the people that are down with COVID-19 are real issues, just like the people suffering from period poverty.
“Nobody has ever died from menstrual stain. But how does it dignify her campaign when people who go about stained, or when girls cannot go to school because they are ashamed of being stigmatized because of their stain and don’t have the resources to manage their periods. I think she should focus on her own campaign while we focus on ours because our campaign doesn’t take away from hers and hers doesn’t take away from ours,” she said.
