Women are not sex objects, FIDA blasts Ndume

The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) has described the call by Senator Ali Ndume urging Senate President, Bukola Saraki to take a second wife as disparaging, and meant to demean the women of Nigeria and portray them as “mere sex objects”.

According to Mrs. Inime Aguma, Country Vice President/ National President FIDA, “FIDA Nigeria is outraged by these utterances on the floor of the hallowed Chambers of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“The remarks made by Senator Ndume are disparaging and meant to demean the women of Nigeria and portray them as “Sex objects”, whose clamour for gender equality can be realized by being married off by men. ‘

May we remind the Senator that Nigeria is a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and his utterances negate the provisions of Article 16 that ‘State parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in all matters relating to marriage.