Anambra: Gender bill for what? (1)
Recently, the National Coalition on Affirmative Action (NCAA) appealed to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State to sign into law the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill, reportedly passed in 2007 and 2010 by the Anambra State House of Assembly but not yet accented to by the Governor. The coalition, led by its coordinator, Prof. Mercy Anagbogu, described Obi as the most gender sensitive governor in the country, but expressed surprise at Obi’s alleged squeamishness to sign the bill.
Prof. Anagbogu said: “We sent a report to the international community that Obi is the most gender-sensitive governor in the country, going by what he has done for the women. From what we have so far observed, we are close to the 35 per cent affirmative action in Anambra…. So, we see no reason why the governor could not sign the bill already passed twice by the lawmakers. He should know that this bill is for the good of all”.
Then, it goes without saying that if Governor Obi had, without signing the bill into law, achieved much more for the women, he would continue to achieve much more for them, without bothering to sign the bill. Or, his signing the bill will be a mere formality, which serves no additional advantage. But, why are women in Anambra State and the rest of the world questing lither and thither for legalizing or constitutionalizing their citizenship rights, particularly political right, already constituionalized in Nigeria and other democracies?.
Surely, it is only in the spirit of feminism or women liberation. Since the 1960s, beginning from the United States of American (US),women worldwide have been rising from indulence to challenge men in every struggle-politics, career, education, pay, promotion, and so on. They have been sprouting up to cancel and tear to pieces the argument that God had designed men as prime ministers, judges, pilots, captains of industries, et alii, and women as secretaries, waitresses, data clerks, computer operators and housewives. Perhaps, the women are being goaded by the deception that every man is a sexist, derisive of the female sex and expressive of masculine superiority.
However, the Nigerian women was not caught by the fever of the women’s emergence, known as feminism or women liberation, until after the civil war. At independence, the Nigerian woman was still family-oriented, but shortly after the war she became career-oriented, less by choice than economic realities.
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