Women activists under the aegis of
the National Coalition on Affirmative Action have said the sacking of
five women ministers by Jonathan contravened his postulation on
gender balance and 35 per cent affirmative action.
The Chairperson of NCAA,
Oby Nwankwo and Executive Director of Women Advocates ‘Research and
Documentation Center, Dr. Abiola Akiyode, called on the
President to ensure that women were evenly represented in his
cabinet.
“The news of a cabinet reshuffle came
as a surprise to the whole country, however, what is of most concern was that
five out of the nine ministers who were relieved of their portfolios were
women,” they said in a statement on Thursday.
The statement was also endorsed
by the Gender and Constitutional Reform Network; International Federation
of Women Lawyers; the Legislative Advocacy Coalition on Violence Against
Women; the Women Consortium of Nigeria; the Women’s Aid
Collective; the Civil Resource Development and Documentation Centre
and the Gender Action Team.
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It shows to u women dat whateva love GEJ dat he is carrying u along in his government it is to use u 4 his greediness n selfish interest which after achieving it he will dump 4 anoda interest.He is an evil man to dis country n women fold
ReplyDelete@ Raphael or whatever Christain name you disguized to bear. You talk like a mad man! What makes u tink that other women might not be use for a replacement? What is wrong with you pple over this man GEJ? May God help us all in this our country cos if we continued this way, I belt you, we are going no where!everybody has the right to context and win election in this contry erespective of his/her religion or ethnicity and not to focus the leadership on two regions alone. Look at the Igbos who re being denaied of prsidency and can't even fight for their rights but still they don't disturb Nigerians.-Lizzy.C. Abah
DeleteSharapppp has women finish,he can stl bring oda women to replace dem
ReplyDeleteHaba , They should instead insist that a woman will be used as replacement.
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