The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has called on Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to lobby the National Assembly to pass into law the 35 percent affirmative action for women in appointed positions
Osinbajo stated this during a dialogue session at the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room in Abuja.
According to him, although the federal government supports the 35 percent affirmative action for women, there was need for more sensitisation, especially among members of the National Assembly to ensure that it became law.
“It’s clear that we need to do a lot more in terms of the appointment of women into Board positions.
“A lot more sensitization (by CSOs) needs to be done; such that these kinds of legislation gets the kind of attention that they require in order that the legislature sees them as inevitable and pass them into law.
“My worry is that there isn’t seem to be, in my view, enough lobbying and attention paid to it except in the last couple of days before the National Assembly had to take a position, especially the Senate,” he said.
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