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Nigeria: 'FG Yet to Meet 30 Percent Affirmative Action Mark'
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This Day (Lagos)
19 June 2008
Posted to the web 20 June 2008
Chinwe Ochu
Abuja
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Saudatu Bungudu has disclosed that Nigeria is yet to meet the 30% Affirmative Action mark in all elective and appointive positions for women in Nigeria.
"In spite of our efforts at providing equal opportunities at all levels for women to contribute their quota to national development, Nigeria is yet to meet the 30% Affirmative Action mark in all elective and appointive positions".
"We are however, hopeful that as the Joint National Assembly Committee on Constitutional Amendment and the Electoral Reform Committee begin their assignment, the processes will provide for the incorporation of gender perspective in the constitution as well as Affirmative Action in the electoral process".
She disclosed this at the opening ceremony of the National Information and Sensitization Seminar organised by the ECOWAS Gender Development Center in collaboration with the Ministry of Women Affairs in Abuja.
According to her, "The seminar is one of the strategic initiatives designed to develop gender sensitive policies and programmes that will integrate women into the development process, especially as envisaged by the founding fathers of ECOWAS."
"Within the last nine years of civilian administration in Nigeria, we have gradually graduated from Women in development programming to the present state of streamlining gender in all aspects of our national lives".
"This is to say that at the rate things are going, it will not be surprising for Nigeria to achieve the third Millenium Development Goals target of women empowerment and reducing violence and discrimination against women by the year 2015", she said.
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Appealing to the National Assembly to fast- track the process of passing into law, the Bill on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Hajiya Bungudu said: "I believe that the passage of this vitally important Bill into law will give the Nigerian women the democratic dividend they so much desire."
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