Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Open Letter: Letter To Mrs. Patience Jonathan
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| Mrs. Patience Jonathan |
An Open
Letter To Her Excellency, Dame Patience Jonathan
Dear Dame Patience,
I thank God for your full recovery. Your
Thanksgiving and Burnt Offering to God were awesome. I will continue to pray
for you and your lovely Husband, our President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for
God’s protection and guidance in all your undertakings and services to the
Nigeria.
I write you this letter with a heavy
heart and with tears in my eyes. I have not stopped crying after reading an
article that went viral on the internet on the 18 February, 2013 with the
caption IS MALE CHAUVINISM A STANDING
ORDER IN EBONYI HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY? written by one Sam Asoluka. My heart is
burdened because I am a citizen, student, and an indigene of Ivo Constituency.
I am in tears because I am woman, a fiancee to a gentleman who is not from Ebonyi
State, Nigeria.
The said article got me thinking
especially as my fiance is not from my state, Ebonyi. I am now worried because
it seems marrying outside my state downgrades my Nigerian citizenship or makes
me a second class citizen in my husband’s state. I am more worried because as a
woman who intends to marry outside my state, I may face the same problem
Honourable Mrs Lillian Igwe is facing in my home state’s House of Assembly.
The purpose of this letter is to draw
your attention to the plight of
Honourable Lady, Lillian Igwe, and PDP Member Representing Ivo Constituency in
Ebonyi House of Assembly. And to help put an end to this ‘Marriage–crime’
that has taken a strong root in Ebonyi State House of Assembly from spreading
to other states in Nigeria.
Marriage is not a crime. It is an ordained
relationship by God and our politicians should not be allowed to ruin or
destroy this revered family setting because of selfishness. And as an aspiring
politician, I don’t want to be victimized when I marry my heartthrob and move
to live with him in his state which automatically becomes my home and state.
Your Excellency, the plight of Honourable Mrs Lillian Igwe is mind
boggling. She was suspended from Ebonyi House of Assembly last year on the lame
charges of drunkenness and for coming to the House of Assembly in a Keke Napep.
But the truth is that Honourable Igwe’s sin is that she is not from Ebonyi
State. She is from Okirika in Rivers
State and married to an Ebonyi man. But she won the Ivo Constituency for PDP in a
democratically conducted election in 2011.
Since her victory in the election, she
has not known peace in the House of Assembly. The male dominated Assembly has
done everything in their power to rubbish her because she is an outsider and a
woman. These so called honourable members of the Assembly have ceaselessly
bullied and emotionally tortured Mrs Igwe because she refused to do their bidding. Hence they came up with the obnoxious claim that she drank herself to
stupor and comes to the House in Keke Napep.
Honourable Mrs Igwe does not drink
alcohol. And, I wonder when it has become a crime in Nigeria to ride in a
tricycle to work. This is just a matter of giving dog a bad name to hang it and
how low Ebonyi House of Assembly has degenerated
Your Excellency, I am calling your
attention to this Ebonyi House of Assembly imbroglio because you have worked
hard in empowering women in Nigeria and what is happening in my State Ebonyi,
tantamount to putting spanners to the good work you and other notable Nigerian
women have done for most of us who are aspiring to serve our fatherland in
various capacities.
As I write you this letter, Honourable
Mrs Igwe is still on suspension for no real reason, her Ivo Constituency as a
whole which I am a member has no representative in the House of Assembly. We
have been cut off from Ebonyi House of Assembly because the men who
overpopulate the House hate Mrs Igwe. This is unjust and unacceptable to us. We
have protested but they did not give a damn. Is the House of Assembly now
victimizing us because we the people of Ivo Constituency elected one of our wives,
a respectable woman to represent us?
Honourable Mrs Igwe is a hardworking
woman and a mother of young children. She is an astutely politician and has
robustly represented us in the Assembly. She is no more an outsider in Ebonyi
State. She is now an indigene of Ivo by marriage and some of us are hoping to
be indigenes of other states by marriage soon.
Your Excellency, I urge you to please
use your good offices to look into what is currently going on in Ebonyi House
of Assembly. Mrs Igwe is unjustly being victimized because she is from Okirika in River state. Your urgent intervention
in this matter will stop further emasculation of helpless people of Ivo and
their Assembly Member Honourable Mrs Lillian Igwe by these ruthless men in Ebonyi
House of Assembly.
Thank you. And happy Mothers Day in
advance
Yours sincerely,
Promise Egwu.
proegwu@yahoo.com
Photonews: Cardinals' Oaths Of Secrecy
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| A Cardinal Taking The Oath Of Secrecy, Preparatory To Conclave |
U-Report: CD Urges South-East Govs To Intervene In Lagos Market Closure
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| Ladipo Market Lagos |
Report By: Publicity Unit Of
Campaign For Democracy; South-East Region
The Campaign for
Democracy (CD) has urged the South-East governors to intervene in the current closure
of Ladipo Market in Lagos State due to its economic importance to Ndi-Igbo.
This was contained in a
statement issued to newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra State on Monday.
The statement was signed
by Dede Uzor A. Uzor, Chairman, CD South-East Region.
The statement said that
closing the entire market for mere alleged non conduct of environmental
sanitation exercise is a denial of the economic right of thousands of traders
as well as millions of people in Lagos and the country benefiting from the market.
``We want the South-East
governors, traditional rulers and the Oba of Lagos to prevail on the Lagos
State governor to reverse the directive and open the market in the interest of
the economic right of Nigerians affected by the market closure”.
``The governors through
the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) should warn Lagos State governor over taking
inhuman actions since it is widely believed that Lagos is a multi-ethnic
settlement”.
``President
Goodluck Jonathan should intervene and talk to the Lagos State governor to
weigh actions before taking them,’’ The statement said.
The statement
further said that the present development where little provocation would lead
to immeasurable action against the citizens of the state was uncalled for.
U-Report: CD Gives Imo State Police CP Ultimatum Over Kidnapped Businessman, Murdered Policemen
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| Abubakar; Nigeria's IGP |
Report By: Publicity Unit Of Campaign For Democracy; South-East Region
The Campaign for Democracy (CD), South-East Region has issued a
7-day ultimatum to Mr. Mohammed Kastina, Imo State Police Commissioner to find
and free a businessman, Chief Emeka Aseme, who had been kidnapped over a week
ago.
``The ultimatum also covered the tracking down of the six-man
gang, who also killed two policemen from the Oguta Divisional Police
Headquarters on the fateful day,’’ CD said in a statement.
The statement, which was signed by Dede Uzor A. Uzor, Chairman, CD
South-East Region, was issued to newsmen on Monday in Onitsha, Anambra State.
It would be recalled that a six-man gang of kidnappers, who were
dressed in army camouflage, on Feb. 24 abducted Chief Emeka Aseme; while they
killed two policemen from Oguta Police Divisional Headquarter that engaged them
in a gun duel.
``It is clear that Imo State is now recording the highest incidents
of kidnapping in the South-East and the country in general”.
``We are calling on the CP Kastina to live up to his
constitutional responsibility of protecting Imo State citizens”.
``We want him to evolve a pragmatic approach to tracking down the
rising wave of kidnapping, which is already scaring away potential investors
and property developers from Imo State,’’ the statement said.
The statement also urged Imo people to be vigilant and report any
visible suspicious movement as well as strange faces to law enforcement
agencies.
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