Social media users particularly indigenes of the 5 regions of the North are livid about claims that girls in that part of the country use clay soil in place of menstrual pad during menstruation.
In a series of media interviews ahead of this year’s World Menstrual Hygiene Day, CEO of Inspire Today, Rita Etornam Sey decried the kind of unhygienic materials menstruating girls are compelled to use due to poverty compounded by the high cost of sanitary products.
According to her, women in the country particular in the north have resorted to using harmful materials to catch menstrual flow during their periods as they are unable to afford hygienic products.
Ms. Etornam claimed that she found out when she visited the country’s north that some of the young women there go as far as using clay in place of menstrual products due to the situation.
“For Inspire Today, over the period, the places we have been to, the girls use all manner of materials for menstruation. Some use newspapers, we went to the North, some of the girls use clay as substitute for sanitary pad. We have people using reading materials, text books that we donated to them,” she said on state broadcaster, GTV.
But this claim by the Inspire Today CEO has sparked outrage among indigenes of the North.
Some of them, who have taken to social media to register their displeasure, called her out for what they say are lies she peddled about the area.
They say such a practice does not exist anywhere in the North but is only fabrication by Ms. Etornam to win donor support.
They are demanding that she proves her claim or apologises for denigrating them.
They have also taken on the media outlets, which granted her the interviews, for allowing her to make such utterances on their platforms without any prove.
