IWD: Male Activists Lead Protesting Women On Gender Bills

 Notable male activists on Tuesday led a coalition of women groups and activists protesting and occupying the gate of the National Assembly, Abuja, over the rejection of all gender bills by the federal lawmakers. 



 Those at the second of such protest by women are Chairman of the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani; Executive Director Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo; Senior Fellow Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim and the Executive Director, Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa (PAACA), Ezenwa Nwagwu, a lawyer.

Others include Mr. Dayo Olaide of the MacArthur Foundation; Programme Officer, CDD, Mr Austin Aigbe; Executive Director, Citizens Advocacy for Social and Economic Rights (CASER), Barrister Frank Tietie; Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Anthony O. Ojukwu; former National Chairman, Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Peter Ameh, and activist Lemmy Ugbegbe among others.


They were unanimous in saying that the federal lawmakers acted in error and should reverse themselves immediately by passing the rejected bills into law and for Presidential assent.


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