We all know that before now every where, women are not given the chance to discover themselves to be what they want to be.
The general believe everywhere is that a woman’s place is in her husbands home that is where they feel she can displce all the God given talent that she has there is this believe that she can’t be useful in any other place but there. So most culture believe training a woman those days, was just a waste of time and resources thats why when a woman is educated up to the primary level she is asked to stop there while her brothers go further to the higher institution. And she is married off from there some parents even tell those women that want to be educated further to continue from their husbands houses while they bear him kids.
And this men they get married to with they fear that the women will get to know more than thy do now refuse to allow them continue even if they have promised to let them continue after they married them.
But time has shown that educating a woman is no mere waste of time and those parent who did it have lived not to regret it, but to thank God that they did.
That is why today I want to talk about women in Nation Building and the remarkable things they have done.
In our homes or houses today women are the ones who see to it that things are managed well and that things go the way it ought to go, this type of passion that this women have in managing their home’s is what they also carry to their work place to work with, even those who are not married also have this passion of i must make things go right.
I think God just gave all women that passion that was why he did not make it a all men world.
When we look at NAFDAC, no one ever thought about it or its importance in out nation until a woman got there, and because of the passion she has as a mother she was able to stand up and say the danger fake drugs is commiting in our Nation has got to stop dispite all the difficulties she faced she still continue the strugggle to stop the fake drug minace in our nation like a mother fighting to save the live of her children. And she has successfully done it well i want to believe it only a woman that can be patient and decicated enough to have such passion.
Ndi Okereke Onyuike of the Stock Market has been able to revolutionize the stock market for good.
We have other examples of women wha rae done excellence in their chosen fields such as Ngozi Onkonjo Iweaha, Obiageli Ezekwesile, and Nenadi Usman and our Oreoluwa Shomolu of w-tec.
Then there’s is the case of Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf, president of Liberia, we also have Zimbabwe’s Wangari Maatnai, the Nobel prize winner. These have included the example of the West and Asia where women like Britian’s Margaret Thatcher, Israel’s Golda Meir, India’s Indira Ghandi, Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto, and lately Germany’s Angela Merkel have done or are doing well.
All these have been referenced in the case for the involvement of women in the leadership of State that constitute the continent. But we have to consider the issue of whether our men have satisfied our fundamental expectations of leadership. We have seen a leadership that cannot be said to be satistactory, save one or two pop-ups of good one’s like Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
Political perennialism (sit-tightism) abuse of power, violations of human rights, mismangement of ther economy, and under development have been Sordid realities of the past four decades when we have men in the saddle of power.
The fact of an emerging spectrum of feminine leadership resources across the continent is no longer controvertible. Each country in Africa is birthing women professionals that possess requisite leadership protentials that can catapult the continent the new heights where they given a chance.
Gender equality presupposes giving a chance to a marginalized gender (in this case, women).
The saddle of leadership is long overdue to be ceded to the feminine gender, wher we to eschew prejudice, bias chauvinism subjectivism and other less than wholesome oddities of the human nature, it would be obvious in no time how much progress would be made by this great continet in the area of good goverance, infrastuctural development, rule of law, economic stability and progress, health education e.t.c.
Making concessions for th feminine gender to have a shot of leadership does not erode the headership or leadership of men over them nor does it make a woman not to be a woman. Let the woman of Africa have chance at leadership so we can move forward. You educate a woman you educate a Nation.
