Gender equality: Give women 50% of leadership roles – UN’s Eyong to Nigerian politicians

The United Nations, UN Women Country Representative for Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Beatrice Eyong, has advocated for sex equality successful governance, asserting that women should inhabit fractional of the parliamentary seats.

Eyong made these remarks during an interrogation with Chikas Kumle, the enforcement manager of the Women Development Monitoring Initiative (WDMI), focusing connected the theme, ‘Representation: The Urgency of Now’.

She emphasized that women, who marque up astir 50 percent of Nigeria’s population, are entitled to adjacent practice successful governance.

“The rules and regulations of this state should person mandated parity. We should not witnesser a parliament with little than 5 percent representation. We should not spot a backstage assemblage with little than 50 percent. We should not person authorities houses of assembly with little than 50 percent. It should beryllium a 50-50 split,” she stated.

“I anticipation that arsenic we proceed to contiguous these arguments to our leaders, they volition travel to admit this necessity.”

Eyong further asserted that equitable information indispensable spell beyond specified numerical practice to encompass women with disabilities, widows, and those from various...