Lagos Businesswoman Condemns Threats To Oluremi, Alleged Renting Of Women, Others

Chief (Mrs.) Vivian Nneka Igwe

LAGOS-based woman-entrepreneur, Chief (Mrs.) Vivian Nneka Igwe has added her voice in condemning the verbal attacks to the Chairman of Senate Committee on Women Affairs, Senator Oluremi Tinubu last week during a plenary by Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly. 

Mrs. Igwe in her statement with our correspondence on Wednesday vehemently frowned at the reckless words used against the senator by her male colleague stating that the insults and threat were affronts to womenfolk as a whole and therefore joined the multitude of women demanding for apology from Melaye...
However, she condemned the alleged renting of protesting women with a whooping sum of N75m which she said could be used in a better judicious manner particularly for the widows and down-trodden women in the society who had long been left to face their plights alone.  She said, though the deed is an allegation yet to be proven, that such expenditures if well channeled could reduce poverty among many women who have good ideas but lack capitals to execute them.

She urges Mrs. Tinubu to use her good office as the chairman of senate Committee on Women Affairs to empower women through creating opportunities for skill acquisitions as well as access to loan facility to enable women fulfill their destinies. However, she frowned over the silence of Senator Tinubu when two women were helplessly murdered in Kano State and Abuja recently.

It will be recalled that Senator Melaye had during a plenary threatened to beat up Senator Tinubu and pregnant her and boasted that nothing would happen. This sparked up protests by the women stating that the reckless statements leaves much to be desired of a senator in the National Assembly, and amounted to disrespect to womenfolk in general.