A pro-women rights group has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) urging it to question a former Kwara State commissioner Tunji Moronfoye over alleged comments disparaging the recent nomination of nine women into the cabinet of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.

Authored Convener of the Women Against Gender Discrimination (WAGED), Dr Florence Onibudo, the petition accused Moronfoye of misogynistic comments against womenfolk and must not be left to go without response.

Moronfoye had once denied making the comments which have since attracted criticisms from far and near.

The latest petition was copied to the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), NHRC Gender Thematic Team Women, Children and Vulnerable Groups National Human Rights Commission, the Women for Peace & Gender Equality Initiative, and Women Consortium of Nigeria.

“We are writing this Petition against Mr. Tunji Moronfoye, a former commissioner in Kwara State and a purported civil society leader, for his careless hate speech, misplaced dark humours, uncultured gender innuendos and gender discriminatory utterances which are targeted towards Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq's well-considered nomination of a cabinet having 56.25% women,” according to the statement.

“The said unforgivable and irresponsible comments were reportedly made on the 24th October, 2019 while on air on local radio station called Albarika Fm, Ilorin. And the same unfortunate comments have been echoed and trumpeted across various social media platforms by some ignorant and witless youths who look up to Mr. Tunji and his ilk as perfect mentors of their sociopathy. Some of the misguided youths have even tagged the nomination "bedroom appointment”. This is condemnable, to say the least.

“If hateful and character damaging statements of this magnitude are allowed and overlooked as mere rantings it would be a grave insult on womanhood and would allow continuous barbaric and crude notions that women are mere objects of sexual pleasure and nothing more.

“Considering key provisions against women degradation and gender discrimination in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Protocol to the ACHPR on the Rights of Women in Africa, AU Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, I hope he is summoned by your able commission for questioning and he is strictly taken up for his comments. This would serve the purpose of deterring all future comments with similar naivety.”


https://kwaragist.com/moronfoye-sarakis-ex-aide-under-fire-over-anti-women-comment-as-group-petitions-nbc-rights-commission/

Very good.

It is probably a good thing that Saraki never went into practice, even though he qualified as a Medical Doctor. Given his antics in politics and his role as mentor and character model to a class of Kwarans with crude and uncivil approach to society, it would not be far fetched to project a similar outcome in the medical field for staffs that undergo training and mentorship as his protege....a deadly crew that subtract value from quality of life for patients under their care.