A university graduate decried the negative traditional norms that obstruct girl child education and encourage early marriages instead.
Idiongo Jilda Eleseo is one of the few female graduates hailing from Torit County in Eastern Equatoria state who finished their education recently, Emmanuel Radio reported.She was irked to speak out after witnessing only four female students were able to graduate amidst one hundred Lotuho university grandaunts from various institutions within and without the country.
Ms. Idiongo, who was dismayed by the low number of girls at higher institutions, blamed the poor attitudes of some parents towards education and negative cultural traditions responsible for the fate of the girl child.
The female grandaunt stated her stand against the traditional practice of trading off girls for animals.
Ms. Idiongo explained that girls who are forced to early marriages end up suffering their entire lives without help and become too old at the age of twenty.
She urged parents to desist from keeping girls at home to do domestic work, stressing that sending girls to school is more beneficial than trading them for bride wealth.
Ms. Idiongo discussed the odds of the traditional norms towards girl child education during a one-hour talk-show on Radio Emmanuel on Thursday. She maintained that her ambition is to serve the nation for catering for her education.