A bill seeking to establish equality between men and women in Enugu State was on Tuesday rejected by 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 bill would have been rejected outright, had the Speaker, Hon. Edward Ubosi, not intervened by suggesting that it should be stepped down for reconsideration on a future, unspecified date.

Before then, the sponsor, Omeje-Ogbu, had explained that the ‘Enugu State Equal Opportunities Bill’, if passed into law, would protect all persons from discrimination on the basis of gender, in private and public places.

According to her, the bill provided “protection for women’s bodies, integrity, dignity and would affirm their right to equal opportunities to realise their full potentials”.

She added that the bill was also seeking positions and appointments for the women of Enugu State, noting that marriage, divorce and widowhood should not deny them (women) their rights.

However, many male lawmakers spoke out against the bill.

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.

Other lawmakers were rising against the bill when the Speaker, Ubosi, suggested that it be stepped down for wider consultation.

Ubosi said the bill would be reconsidered in the future.
Thanking the sponsor, Omeje-Ogbu, for the bill, the Speaker said it would not be proper to kill it ‘prematurely’, even though most of the lawmakers had strong feelings against it.

https://www.today.ng/news/national/77389/enugu-lawmakers-reject-bill-on-gender-equality

bloody educated illiterate law makers. i guess they must be those that condemn their wives to the kitchen or a complete housewives not allowing the woman to reach her full God given potentials.....ANIMALS!

Na wa oh!
What equality again? They take up the Jobs meant for us by the use of their two pointed apples and Barcelona.
They insult, harass and maltreat us yet you cant raise a finger on them because they are Women and they even want a bill that will make them equal with us after it is very obvious that they are above us.





Paul says "God forbid!"

Africans: We revel in our ignorance and use it to justify our archaic ways.

My Igbo bradas

Can you imagine

i no read am

what are they saaying

Really unafrican. God created us man and woman with clear distinctions. We can't be equal.

Igbos

I guess this is also Buharis fault

If this were to be in the north...

The Igbos truly need this gender equality law, especially on issue of inheritance.
I can't imagine my father's brother taking over his possessions all cos I'm a girl.

Toks2008 is not going to like this.

All ds people wey dey bear Dame ehnn. Hin be like say dem no get brain true true ooo.
That man is right. Gender isnt equal. And that is our African culture.
We need to sensitize the female folks. We need a society where every gender knows his/her strata

i dont see anything out of d ordinary in the bill, perhaps d men have a personal beef wif d woman dat sponsored d bill...



relocate to america...lol

Can't stop Laffing

na wa

Typical Igbo men.

God punish and destroy those lawmakers who are against it..

Ignorance is when you think you know, when in actual fact you know absolutely nothing.

Simple misguided thought and the fear of the unknown.

Africans will always remain the cry babies of western world with pathetic mentality like this one

See the type of leaders we voted into power. Tell me how Nigeria will move forward with this type of leaders?

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’.

What an idiotic statement, African women are not humans?
Missed opportunity, I say.

Bunch of misogynists! Now they know Nigeria isn't America. .yeye..


Dear Ladies, always hold your heads up high..Don't allow anyone treat you less than you deserve. ..

hmh

INTROVERT:
Can you imagine

issorite

This is a joke right?

Women are already controlling most homes. If there should be equal rights, it should be us men that should be fighting for it

Seconded.......and I've noticed marriages hardly end in divorces in enugu and their women are well taken care of and are happy.unlike in some other parts of the country where divorces and babymamas are in vogue

Useless lawmakers,the only thing they know how to do is to leave their miserable wives at home to carry prostitute from otigba junction,thunder scatter their heads one by one