President Muhammadu Buhari on
Thursday said the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS) came to threaten
him over female appointments in his cabinet.
The president spoke during an
audience with the leadership of the NCWS at the presidential villa, Abuja.
Buhari, however, assured that his
administration would address the deficit in appointments by appointing more
women into his cabinet.
The president said: “I have
appreciated the subtle and timely threat you have made; I said timely because
you waited until campaigns are about to start, you mobilised yourselves to come
and threaten.
“I hope you are being very fair
to me; I will leave you to the public to judge. You said I haven’t replaced the
casualties from my council about the ladies. I’m sure you are following up
(finance and women affairs).
“One applied to leave because I
think she wants to be the governor of the state and one failed to meet the
government requirement of declaring NYSC certificate.
“I replaced them with other
ladies; so, I don’t know where I went wrong there?
“This deficit in women
appointments I will look at it and the road is clear; election is coming
perhaps I will get a few more advisers, ministers from the women. I thank you
most sincerely for coming to see me.”
On the rate of sexual violence
and abuse in the society, particularly at the internally displaced persons’
camps (IDPs), the president said he had already directed the security agencies
to immediately address the problem.
“I have taken note of the
observations you made on the abuse of women in the IDPs camps,” he said.
“I’m encouraging the police to be
much more efficient and I think something is being done about it.’’
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