Nollywood star, Nkechi Blessing Sunday has asked the two chambers of the National Assembly to reconsider the gender-focused bills before them.
Sunday made the call in commemoration of the International Women’s Day celebration which comes on the heels of the rejection of gender-focused bills by the Nigerian legislature.
While speaking in Abeokuta during the donation of food items to 3,000 women in Abeokuta, Sunday who is also Group Managing Director of Ojulowo Omoluabi Empire Holdings Limited urged the men-dominated NASS to ensure that women folks have a say in the things that concerns them.
She said: “I can only appeal to our lawmakers to please hold us, the women folks, in high esteem for the first time in this country and let us be able to contribute to matters that concern us.
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“Please remember that we cannot be selfish with power because there is nothing we can do if the interests of our children and husband are not taken care of. In other words, we are still going to be submissive to you even after empowering us in the society but please give us a voice too, we need to be heard.”
Meanwhile, she noted that the donation was part of her efforts to celebrate other women in the country, calling on other well-to-do women to replicate the gesture and assist every woman who needs help around the world.
She also promised to liaise to the Ojulowo Omoluabi Empire management to vote more money into its women empowerment programme.
Items given to the beneficiaries include clothes, rice, spaghetti, palm oil etc. while she added that she will continue to do more by further giving alms to women in celebration of women’s contributions to the national development.
“I will not stop giving to women as far as God continues to bless me, I will also keep blessing women with the little resources I have gotten.
“Although today we have spent about three million naira but it is not about the figure for us but the lives it has touched. When we get further support, we will do more and I want to use this medium to congratulate women around the world,” she added.