Reps, UN sign MoU on women inclusion in governance

The House of Representatives has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations Women connected the request to summation the fig of women successful governance.

Speaker of the House, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas said connected Thursday successful Abuja that the concern is to amplify the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill and the Bill connected Women’s Parliamentary Seats.

Represented by his Deputy Speaker, Rep. Benjamin Kalu, Abbas said that the advocacy concern volition work arsenic a instrumentality to lobby different stakeholders particularly the constituents for women inclusivity.

“So the advocacy should not lone beryllium wrong the people’s parliament alone, it should spell beyond present to the agrarian areas for the constituents to cognize wherefore we privation to spell this way.

“Let them spot the comparative investigation betwixt our state and different countries, fto them spot what we are missing by not going this way each this portion and fto them spot what we are going to summation if we spell this route,” helium said.

He stressed the request to physique the capableness of women and sensitise women to enactment pistillate aspirants.

He besides said that women should beryllium encouraged to bring their champion successful contributing to nationalist improvement and not to vie with men oregon beryllium seen to beryllium antagonistic to men.

Earlier, the UN Women Country Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ms. Beatrice Eyong said that Nigerians are looking up to the National Assembly to code the occupation of women underrepresentation.

She said that determination are astir 4 per cent of women elected to the National Assembly, and that determination are lone 7 women serving successful the 45 subordinate national cabinet.

She said that Nigeria is not doing good successful the continental successful presumption of women practice successful governance.

“This is the situation we indispensable each enactment unneurotic to surmount. You person demonstrated leadership, dedication and passionateness successful this journey.

“UN Women is committed to locomotion this travel and to physique a beardown and sustainable concern with your bureau and with the rank of the National Assembly,” she said.

Eyong said that the UN Women, with fiscal publication from the Government of Canada and Norway had since 2019 supported strategical partnerships focusing connected enhancing women’s political.

She said adjacent attraction had besides been fixed to economical empowerment, advancing the rights of women and girls, and strengthening women’s dependable and enactment successful development, peace, information and humanitarian effect nexus among others.