The member representing Anaocha II Constituency in the
Anambra House of Assembly, Chief Ejike Okechukwu says women are architects of
their own political woes.
Okechukwu, who is also House Committee Chairman on Basic
Education, made this known when he received a group, Anambra 100 Women Lobby
Group and 50-50 Women Action Group of Women Aide Collective (WACOL) in Awka.
“Women should stop crying out that men are violating or
abusing them. Men actually do not wish political ills on women who have
ventured into political affairs.
“The women fail to use their numerical strength to support
their fellow women for reasons best known to them.
“Women make rules in their meetings regarding how their
burial rites, widowhood, girl child conduct should be, it is not the men.
“They put in unfriendly rules starting from period of
mourning, shaving of hair, what to wear, genital mutilation, among others.
“They enforce these rules too, so they should go back to the
basics and change those archaic rules,” he said.
He said that women should look inward to discard practices
against them, especially the rural dwellers.
Okechukwu said Anambra had domesticated the Violence Against
Persons Prohibition (VAPP ) Law and Judiciary Independence.
”The gender bill failed because women did not shine their
eyes well. The men who stepped down the bill are your brothers, husbands and
relatives.
“Women should do their home work very well. Anambra
legislators respect women and would act in a manner that will benefit them,” he
said.
He advised the women to take their advocacy on women
inclusion in political affairs outside the South East because women are given
fair chances in the area.
“Expression of forms are given almost free just to encourage
women in political participation and they are appointed into political offices,
so men are for women,” he said.
Earlier the leader of the delegation of 100 Women Group, Mrs
Ify Unachukwu said the group wants a fair chance for women in position sharing.
Unachukwu said that women legislators needed fair treatment.
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