Apologise To Remi Tinubu Within Three Days Or We Picket NASS, Women Group Tells Dino Melaye

As Nigerians continue to condemn the alleged verbal attack Dino Melaye launched on his colleague, Senator Remi Tinubu, during the senate plenary on Tuesday, a women group, the Women Advocacy

Research and Development Centre (WARDC) has given him three days to apologise to Mrs. Tinubu or women will picket the National Assembly.The group made the threat in a statement issued on
Thursday and signed by Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, its Coordinator.The statement reads:“Failure of Senator Dino Melaye to take this appropriate step will lead to picketing of the National Assembly by well meaning Nigerians. The women group condemned the seeming silence of the senate to Dino’s verbal attack on a woman.Verbal abuse, assault and battery of women is becoming a pattern in our democratic dispensation and it is a reflection of the numerous abuses that women face on a daily basis in the society.According to National Demographic and Health Survey Report (2013), 28 percent of women age 15-49 have experienced physical violence at least once and 7 percent have experienced sexual violence in Nigeria and it is believed these figures are not representative of the magnitude of the problem.Between 2003 till date, notable women lawmakers have experienced physical and verbal abuse from men who are supposed to protect their rights.Another lawmaker at the National Assembly slapped Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, while an aide to an Immigration Officer at the Assembly Complex battered another female lawmaker from Edo state earlier this year.Honourable Funmi Tejuoso was also physically assaulted at the Lagos State House of Assembly sometimes ago. This is gender insecurity against Senator Oluremi Tinubu.Unfortunately, despite the public outcry against the security threat to Senator Oluremi Tinubu, the senate and the APC have not yet responded to the matter. The silence on the matter by the Senate and other members of the National Assembly vividly explains a tacit support from the hallowed Chamber on violence against women.”
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