Dr. Kema Chikwe, the National Woman Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed her disappointment and dissatisfaction at the Senate’s rejection of the Nigerian Gender and Equal Opportunities bill.
Chikwe in a statement issued on Friday noted that the Senate’s rejection of the bill will only serve to increase the incidence of rape, domestic violence, maternal mortality, poverty, e.t.c, in the country.
She further added that; “On behalf of the entire PDP women, I join members of the civil society to express profound disappointment and displeasure over the dismissal of the Nigerian Gender and Equal Opportunities bill by the Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday March, 2016,”
The PDP National Woman Leader pointed out that the bill contrary to its name is not all about women, adding that it encompasses the survival of the family system in Nigeria.
She noted that the bill of passed on by the Senate would be to a greater advantage of the men who are the heads of the family. She lamented that the rejection of the bill came at a time when the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) conference is currently holding in New York, USA.
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