The Nigeria Senate did not allow the bill to progress past second hearing.
Stella Damascus
Nollywood actress, Stella Damasus, shared her opinion once again by speaking against the rejection of The Gender Equality Bill by the Nigeria Senate.
Apparently,
she was not pleased that the bill, was rejected by the Senate. This is
also the position of some Nigerian woman and women's rights groups.
Stella Damascus
Showing her disappointment concerning this development, she wrote on her Instagram, ”If we cannot go to every government representative to show them how unacceptable it is then why should we even talk about it?”
"This
is totally unacceptable and if every African woman cannot rise up to
fight for their rights and the rights of their daughters, then why
should anyone listen or care?"
"If every
woman who is a mother, wife, sister, aunt or even neighbor to any
senator, governor, minister etc cannot speak to them about this then
let’s all go to bed."
"I am tired of
seeing the same people fight for the rights of women and children,
risking their lives everyday while others act like they don’t care."
Her position is that the fight to win equal roles for women in the society is a duty of all females.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki
According
to the actress, the cause is lost if women don't stand united and speak
with one voice in their bid to fight against marginalisation, which is
the trend in most African nations.
Modern nations
use bills to strengthen their democracy and weak social systems, it is
rather unfortunate that Nigeria, a country with a high potential when
compared to its African contemporaries has failed to address an issue
which is suppose to stamp-out gender discrimination.
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