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Sunday 30 July 2017
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND POWER DEVOLUTION BILL: NASS NOTE!
His Excellency, Dr Saraki, President of Senate
On Saturday I wrote to DSP, Distinguished Senator Ekweremadu on the
subject of affirmative action 30-35% for women. Sir as one of the most read politicians in Nigeria, your World Class view, exquisite education and exposure; aware that gender parity is the New World Order, it is imperative that
your Senate is not perceived as
continuously working to scuttle it, to remove our great female citizens, half
the population, from the global phenomenon; the other half the male population,
is also great!.
Your Excellency, it’s not
too much for the National Assembly, to legislate
a parity of even 50% each to Men & Women; Great species of Good people. Yet
we in the campaigns for women empowerment concede 30-35%. Sir, the anachronistic
beliefs that women be ‘kitchenized’
are antiquated, antediluvian and penurious perception discarded by all civilized
Nations!
When this 8th Senate shut down the Gender Equal Opportunity
Bill 2016, despite scheduled public hearing which never held, a Bill that propagated
the International Bill of Rights for Women: CEDAW – United Nations Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discriminatory Practices against Women, signed and ratified by Nigeria, many wept like
Jesus. The National Assembly should present the ‘CEDAW Bill’, Let it pass,
please.
Affirmative Action, having read online publication in Vanguard
newspaper of Friday 29th July, link hereunder provided that the bill
on devolution of power be tabled and re-considered upon resumption from
vacation. Kindly also please steer the national assembly to take the Affirmative
Action Bill and Let it Sail Mr. President; Let these Bills pass.
Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Respectfully,
Attorney C N Ajie
Constitutional and Human Rights Law
LL.B(Hons) Benin;
B.L(Lagos); MCIArb(UK); LL.M Georgetown, Washington DC
Fellow, Leadership
and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) 2010
Vital Voices Lead
Fellow 2013
IBA Human Rights
Working Group Africa Regional Officer 2014-2016
UN Women Global Champion
for Change 2016-2017
Saturday 29 July 2017
Affirmative Action: Saraki's Senate vs- Gender
His Excellency Deputy Senate President, Ekweremadu LL.M,, UNN
Yesterday I was at a
conference call with Gender Icon Iyom (Barrister) Josephine Anenih former
Minister of Women Affairs, we deliberated on concerns for inclusive clauses often
seen in modern day Constitution, to reflect
same in the ongoing exercise for the amendment of the Nigerian
Constitution. She confirmed legislative advocacy visit to your exalted office
this week whereat she met with your Excellency and with some of your distinguished
Senators to whom she made presentations as follows:
1)
To have a clause admitting of a female senator for every 2 in each senatorial
district plus a similar provision for the house of reps such that women would
have 30-35% representation in parliament against the sore state of 8% presently
in parliament.
2)
Inscribe affirmative action
clause in the proposed amendment for cabinet such that a minimum of 35% is
achieved for women.
My learned Lady Jo Anenih who
is also your learned colleague has yet
received approval to these gender proposals of concern to us, hence I write to underscore the need for fair representation.
Sir, kindly do not pass the
constitutional amendments with nil clause for gender. Not a few members of Nigeria’s gender unit
stood up to fight in the early days of campaigns for Senate to elect its
officers, and at great risks to our lives and limbs, an assignment undertaken
of our own volition. As it turned out the Senate President and Deputy
SP triumphed in line with section 50 of the CFRN that Legislators must elect
its own officers from “amongst themselves”.
Impressions that Senate
President Saraki is somewhat anti-gender does not advance the cause. You know
his late Dad wanted his Kid Sister to be Governor Kwara State and SP was said
to have blocked it. His Excellency the Senate President is a man of the present
generation one of the most educated politicians in Nigeria with a pedigree, was his late Dad a former Leader of the Senate
not obviously pro-gender he wanted his Daughter Ms Gbemi Saraki to win so should
SP ostensibly promote the affirmative action.
We look forward to the
language of inclusivity in the amendment Sir.
Respectfully,
Attorney C N Ajie
Constitutional and Human Rights Law
LL.B(Hons) Benin;
B.L(Lagos); MCIArb(UK); LL.M Georgetown, Washington DC
Fellow, Leadership
and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) 2010
Vital Voices Lead
Fellow 2013
IBA Human Rights
Working Group Africa Regional Officer 2014-2016
UN Women Global
Champion for Change 2016-2017
Wednesday 26 July 2017
BOOKS NOT BOYS.....
BOOKS NOT BOYS. MARRIED MEN STICK WITH YOUR SPOUSE LEAVE THE TEENAGE GIRLS TO GET SOME EDUCATION
Monday 24 July 2017
NBA AGC 2017 Software: LawBreed and LegalPedia Confirm it!
Dear Colleagues,
Still on NBA AGC’17
electronic legal research software for your e-law reports, the Constitution
1999, etc.
I get a Facebook post on
Rules Watch Monday 24th July 2017 AM click
RULES WATCH Facebook Group for
lawyers and the civil society.
TCCP posted an update on
Rules Watch Facebook wall above this
blessed Monday morning to the effect that Law Breed, Legal Pedia are providing
electronic legal research software for Lawyers for those who register for this
year’s conference. Soon I treated the post I called the Owner Law Breed Layi
Babatunde SAN, he confirmed it to me.
I call Legal Pedia Co-Founder
Lady said Yes! ‘Agreed with NBA-TCCP to provide electronic legal research software for
one year’s subscription free. We are not
providing the Tablets, she says just the software. We are providing the software
to be launched at the AGC August 2017’.
Who is providing the
tablets?. I guess NBA. Because Law Pavilion expressly said they are not in
partnership on the subject of tablets. We do not want our members paying for
materials and not receiving anything worthy. Previously, 2014-2016 Conferences organized by Mr
Augustine Alegeh SAN and his team our members paid and struggled and fought
over materials many didn’t get their conference bags etc.
The infradig of fighting
and struggling over NBA conference bags, tablets and papers MUST STOP NOW! NBA
talks of decorum and the same bar leaders steer indecorous conduct. Lawyers pay for conference materials and
tablets and software rather than hand it seamlessly to registrants, they want you
to fight for it when ‘fisticuffizing’ is professionally prohibited. Lawyers don’t
want to fight over tablets or anything, it is the NBA organizers and NBA
officials who foist it on Lawyers perhaps out of penurious sense competence; a poor
attitude indeed particularly for the leading light of the society.
Good morning Our Own NBA
Attorney CA
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