Chibok girls: NLC women calls for boycott of 2015 elections
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- Nov 13, 2014
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National Women Commission of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has vowed to mobilise women across the country to boycott the 2015 general election, unless the Federal Government rescued the abducted Chibok school girls.
The chairperson of the commission, Comrade Lucy Offiong who made the charge yesterday during a two-day NLC State Women Leadership Training, expressed worry over the condition of the girls.
She said that it was regrettable that rather than doing anything within its fold to ensure that the girls were rescued, government was busy preparing for election.
Comrade Offiong urged all women to use their voting rights to insist on the release of the girls, failure of which they should all boycott all elections stated for 2015.
She said: “The abducted school girls are potential workers and members of this commission. We are very concerned about it.
“We are going to come up with a communiqué with all the women that are gathered here for the conference.
“We are going to draw from their personal experiences, especially those from the troubled North East zone.
“I regret to say that it has been so politicised and government has not done what we expect as women.
“These girls would have been seriously exposed to all forms of inhuman treatments. They must have been so violated.
“We are not even sure about their state, whether they are still alive or not. But since government keep assuring us these girls are still alive, it must shun politics and do everything possible to rescue them.
“I want to say that if Nigerian women can rise just as we are going to rise from this our conference and push that until those girls are brought back, there should be no election in this country.
“It is a serious matter, a sovereign state like Nigeria losing territories to insurgents and government is merely interested in election.
“I think we are in a war situation I think election should be put on hold until the country is returned to normalcy.”
On the conference, the she said it would avail the women, drawn from the 36 states of the country, including the FCT, the opportunity to interact with a view to adding their voices to the cause of a better Nigeria.
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