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Contest political office for enhanced gender inclusion,NGO urges women

AdminBy AdminNovember 24, 2022Updated:November 24, 2022No Comments3 Mins Read
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By Correspondent in Ilorin.

Women of proven integrity and character have been encouraged to contest for political offices to enhance gender inclusion in Nigeria electoral process.

The call is contained in a communique issued at the end of a one-day engagement for selected media platforms on national gender policy and gender equity and social inclusion on Wednesday, organised by the International Women Communication Cenre (IWCC) and supported by the McAthur Foundation.

The event with the theme, “Towards implementation of electoral integrity and accountability in Kwara State.”

According to the communique, such process would expand possibilities for credible women to be elected and promote good governance in the country, especially at the grassroots.

The NGO said:“There should be a level playing field for both male and female and equal opportunities to acquire education.

“There should also be public sensitisation on the need to treat both sexes equally while female gender should be supported to vie for political offices.

“Political campaign should be devoid of campaign of calumny and hatred and women of proven integrity be encouraged to come out and vie for political positions

“The media should give both gender equal opportunity to air there views and there should be the need to engage religious and cultural groups to support gender based policies.”

Speaking at the event, the Executive Director of International Women Communication Centre, Hajia Nimota Goroso Giwa, said the programme was a media engagement to harvest input for domestication that would form the fulcrum of the national gender policy.

“This programme is a media engagement to duel on the issues of national gender policy, electoral policy and gender inclusion and the perspective of the media on the issue.

“We have collaborated with INEC, Ministries of Education and faith- based institutions all over the country to collect their input and what they think are the missing gaps or things that were not included to get it localised and gazetted before it is passed into law.

“We want gender mainstreaming to be applied in all aspect of our development.

“This is an ongoing dialogue and we are going to have a conference in Kwara next year, whereby all the issues we have articulated will be put together to form the national gender policy and taken to the Kwara State House of Assembly.

The expectation, she noted, would come up with a strategic planning meeting to address all the issues raised by the stakeholders for everybody to have input and own the documents.

Edited by Dada Ahmed.

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