A Non-Governmental Organizations, Stand to End Rape Initiative (STER) have urged women to come out, participate in politics and not remain at the back seat.
This was made known on Wednesday in Lagos by the program officer of the group, Mr Adeniyi Hussain at a two days training for journalists, civil society and others with a theme: “Amplifying Women’s Political Participation in Nigeria for the 2027 Elections.”
Hussain said as a group we are committed to building a society where all individuals, particularly women and girls, can fully participate in politics, social, and economic life without discrimination or violence.Supported by the German Embassy.
According to Hussain, the essence of the town hall meeting was as a result of the research carried out by their group in 2021.
“The research was a result of violence women face during politics and the result we got was very alarming such as sexual violence, physical assault and part of efforts to reduced the violence is to support advocacy, when that special seat bill about women is being pass into law, men we know that a particular seat is for female alone they will not want to compete with the female in governance.
“And that will reduce the violence women face. We also noticed that globally and seen that women participation have brought about national development, country that have high representation of women governance are united Kingdom, United States and Rwanda has six per cent of women in government and one of the thriving African country due to high representation of women in governance.
“The goal of this project is to secure the adoption of a legislative quota that guarantees a minimum representation of women in the Nigerian National Assembly by 2027.
This is a critical step toward achieving balanced governance and ensuring women’s voices are represented in shaping Nigeria’s future.”
He added that through this initiative, we are advocating for the passage of the Special Seats Bill, sensitise the general public on the advantages of women’s representation and drive forward gender-responsive political reforms that ensure women’s leadership in governance.
“Part of what we are doing is that we noticed the advocacy was just in Abuja and other places, we decided to bring the discussion to the community in other to engage them and get their views and used it to empower them and to let them know that it’s important for women to participate in politics they are not just meant to seat in the kitchen and home alone.”
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