Constitution amendment: ‘We’ll
ensure Senators don’t come back
in 2019’ – Akiyode-Afolabi


Chairperson, Transition Monitoring Group, and
Executive Director, Women Advocates Research
and Documentation Centre, WARD-C, Dr. Abiola
Akiyode-Afolabi, has declared that the group of
Senators at the National Assembly would be voted
out in 2019.

The Senate had on Wednesday rejected a proposal
to provide women with 35% of all appointments at
federal and state cabinets.
Akiyode-Afolabi said the senators had only
succeeded in showing their gross insensitivity to
women issues.

Addressing reporters, the women leader vowed,
“For that, we will ensure that they are not returned.
They will know what women are made of; we will
use our numbers to resist this injustice. Enough is
enough.”
In the same vein, a civil right activist, and
Chairman of Human and Environmental
Development Agenda, HEDA, Olanrewaju Suraj,
said, “For us, it is important that National Assembly
respects the right of women.

“Constitutional amendments are not just another
killer; it is the right of the people to enjoy equal
freedom and also to promote gender equality.


Constitution amendment: Senate
primitive, stone age – Itse Sagay

Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee
Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay has described
Nigerian Senate as primitive and stone age.

This came as the proposal for women to express
themselves in the polity was voted against by the
Senate in the process of the constitution
amendment.

Reacting to the votes, Sagay told newsmen in
Abuja that “The Senators have demonstrated their
hostilities to women and the best thing that can be
said about them is that they have no regard for
women.

“In our society, we cannot make progress without
our women folk.
“In fact, if you notice, where there is equal
opportunity, women even tend to do better.
“So, pulling them down as it is happening now will
have devastating effects on our progress and
development.
“I would say the Senate’s reaction to women is
extremely primitive and stone age.”


http://dailypost.ng/2017/07/28/constitution-amendment-senate-primitive-stone-age-itse-sagay/

http://dailypost.ng/2017/07/28/constitution-amendment-well-ensure-senators-dont-come-back-2019-akiyode-afolabi/

Where are the feminists? CC LALASTICLALA

I am fully in support of the decision of senate to reject the inclusion of 35% affirmative action in the constitution. Women who desire to hold elective and appointive political positions should compete on equal terms with men.

We are already having issues with implementing quota system and federal character principle that are in our constitution. We cannot add another unimplementable 35% action to it.

All human beings are created equally, we should all be allowed to compete equally on a level playing field.

I commend the Senate for rejecting that kind of rubbish!!!


The Northern cabal would have hijacked it by ensuring that all the 35% women come from the south WHILE the Northern Men enjoy all 65% position for men


Please the appointments should be kept on a level playing ground for both Men & Women to struggle for it joor, no preferential treatment because women have shown that they are not better off than their male counterparts in politics in terms of corruption. If I'm lying, please ask Patience & Dieziani!!!


#NoRoomForLaziness

seunmsg:
I am fully in support of the decision of senate to reject the inclusion of 35% affirmative action in the constitution. Women who desire to hold elective and appointive political positions should compete on equal terms with men.

We are already having issues with implementing quota system and federal character principle that are in our constitution. We cannot add another unimplementable 35% action to it.

All human beings are created equally, we should all be allowed to compete equally on a level playing field.

Women need a little support for a while. The affirmative action can be time bound. Isn't that what development is all about. Helping people to help themselves?

aolawale025:



Women need a little support for a while. The affirmative action can be time bound. Isn't that what development is all about. Helping people to help themselves?

I am not really against affirmative action but I am fully against putting it in our constitution. We can support women to get to the peak of their political aspirations without making it a constitutional matter.

aolawale025:



Women need a little support for a while. The affirmative action can be time bound. Isn't that what development is all about. Helping people to help themselves?

For your information most of the men in governance are influence by their wife at home.

When you say women support you make the women weak

Nobody stop any woman from contesting in any position in government

This

The bill truly doesn't make sense.

Women should be appointed based on merit and not because the constitution says so.