…there is still an opportunity to redeem our democracy. The House of Representatives will be voting again on three of the Gender Bills; Citizenship, Indigeneship and 35 per cent Affirmative Action in party administration. Nigeria needs both the Senate and the House of Representatives to vote and pass all five gender Bills. We need the National Assembly to pass the gender Bills for generations of women and girls in Nigeria today and in the future.
Nigeria deserves to be a nation of truth. These truths remain that; Nigeria’s democracy will remain stagnant without women. Nigeria cannot achieve meaningful growth and sustainable development if women are excluded from government and if gender inequality persists. Hence the importance of these gender Bills. On a positive note, the House of Representatives on March 8, reversed its decision on three of the five Bills, to vote again on them, after the protests by Nigerian women.
The Indigeneship Bill seeks to expand indigeneship to; Nigerians resident in other states and; to women who marry from states other than their state of origin. The Bill defines an indigene as a Nigerian born in a state or has lived in a state for a continuous period of 10 years, has evidence of tax payment in the state, or a woman married to an indigene of a state for at least five years.
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