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
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