It was a rowdy session at the House of Representatives as female lawmakers disrupt the on-going Constitution amendment. The House, on Thursday, July 27, 2017, considered amendments to certain sections of the 1999 Constitution.
This Bill seeks to alter section 25 of the Constitution to guarantee a married woman’s right to choosing either her indigeneship by birth or by marriage for the purposes of appointment or election. This section requires 240 votes to be amended. However, 216 votes were realised – after which some figures displayed on the score board.
The female lawmakers in the house of representatives disrupted the voting on amendments to register their refusal to accept the result of a voting on married women’s right to choose her indigeneship by birth or marriage. Due to some technical glitches with the scoreboard, Yakubu Dogara, the speaker, put the provision to vote again.
When the problem was finally fixed and members voted, only 208 endorsed it, this prompted the female lawmaker to stage a protest.
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