Lawmakers Reject Bill Seeking Equality Among Men & Women

We are equal...we are not inferior to men...we are all
created equally...we want equality...Smiles! If you ask me I
will say what our African woman should be asking for is
EQUITY rather than the so called quality that is turning life
into what we can no longer understand in the western
world.
A bill seeking to establish equality between men and women
in Enugu State was on Tuesday rejected by most members
of the state house of assembly.
The proposed law, known as
‘Equal Rights and Opportunities for Men and Women and
Other Matters Related Thereto Bill’, was sponsored by a
female member of the House, Hon. Dame Nkechi Omeje-
Ogbu, representing Nsukka West Constituency.
Omeje-Ogbu is also the chairman of the House Committee
on Gender Affairs.
The bill had scaled first reading before suffering a setback
during a debate on Tuesday, with most of the male
members kicking out viciously against it. It was described
as ‘anti-cultural’ and ‘un-African’ .
The member representing Awgu North Constituency, Hon.
Sunny Ude-Okoye, said that he would not be a party to the
bill ‘because here is Africa and not America’.
Ude-Okoye suggested that if anybody wishes to embrace
practices as suggested in the bill, such a person should
relocate to America.
“I have risen to declare my stand, I have risen to take my
stand that this is a colossal waste," he said.