{"id":2525,"date":"2022-03-03T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2022-03-17T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:06:21","slug":"nass-rejection-of-women-bills-blights-constitution-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/nass-rejection-of-women-bills-blights-constitution-review\/","title":{"rendered":"NASS Rejection of Women Bills Blights Constitution Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In one fell swoop and after counting of the votes, the Nigerian National Assembly at its plenary sessions on Tuesday, 1st March 2022, voted to reject five bills seeking to improve participation of women in governance in the country. Voting on 68 bills covering a range of matters, the National Assembly failed to vote in support of five key bills that would have improved women\u2019s rights, created more legislative seats and increased participation of women in the governance of Nigeria. The most far-reaching of these bills being the Specific seats for women in the Federal and State Legislative Houses, which could have been the signature amendment of the 9th <\/sup>Assembly\u2019s legislative achievement. Another failed bill was the bill to provide 35% affirmative action for women in political party administration, which failed in both houses, including an amendment in the House of Representatives to 15%. Others include the bill to expand the scope of citizenship by registration, to extend citizenship to foreign spouses of Nigerian women and the bill on State indigeneship rights, which were approved in the Senate but failed in the House of Representatives. Also, a bill for reserved quota for women in Executive cabinet positions (ministers and commissioners) was approved in the House of Representatives by voice votes but failed in the Senate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This turn of events at the National Assembly\nhighlights the lack of political will to address gender issues in Nigeria,\nparticularly the low political representation of women. This is in spite of several declarations to\ntake specific action to improve women\u2019s political participation, including the\nNational Assembly promising in its Legislative Agenda, to make inclusion a\npriority. Nigeria is still far from achieving\nwomen’s substantial and effective participation in political decision-making,\nespecially in the Legislature. Nigeria currently sits at the bottom of every\nglobal ranking on women inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate and House of Representatives however\npassed some other crucial Constitution Alteration bills that will engender\nnational development if assented to. Several of these bills include bills\nrecognising the Local Government as a tier of government with financial\nautonomy, the bill to create uniform retirement age and pension rights for judicial\nofficers of superior courts of record, the bill for independent candidacy in\nall elective positions in the country, the bill to separate the Office of the\nAttorney-General of the Federation\/ State from the Minster\/Commissioner for\nJustice of the Federation\/State, the bill to separate the Office of the\nAccountant General of Federation from Office of the Accountant General of the\nFederal Government, the bill to empower the National Assembly or State House of\nAssembly to summon the President or Governor on issues that the National or\nState Assembly has power to legislate on. Some others include the bill to\nprovide for free and compulsory basic education and the bills moving railway\nand airport from the Exclusive legislative list to the Concurrent legislative\nlist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the link to see how the National Assembly voted on the fifth Constitution Alteration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In one fell swoop and after counting of the votes, the Nigerian National Assembly at its plenary sessions on Tuesday, 1st March 2022, voted to reject five bills seeking to improve participation of women in governance in the country. Voting on 68 bills covering a range of matters, the National Assembly failed to vote in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}