While the United Arab Emirates was electing its youngest minister, a 22-year old woman, something else was going down in Enugu State.

The chairperson of the state House Committee on Gender Affairs, Hon. Nkechi Omeje-Ogbu, a female member representing Nsukka West Constituency, sponsored a bill.

It was a bill to give equal rights to men and women in the state, so women don’t get discriminated on account of gender and maternity issues, amongst other things.

It was thrown out in the second reading.

The reason? It was un-african.



In 2016? They must be high on some cheap stuff.

It gets worse though. One Hon. Sunny Ude-Okoye. Somebody’s father. This is what he said, “I have risen to declare my stand, I have risen to take my stand that this is a colossal waste.”




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