Gender and Constitution Reform Network (GECORN), in collaboration with Ford Foundation, has called for 50 per cent affirmative action as against the
previous 35 per cent in all elective positions in the country, in addition to an end to all violence against women and girls.
After receiving an award of honour from the women group, Borno State commissioner for women affairs, Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo, said now is the time for voices of women to be heard and promises made fulfilled, adding that women need to be carried along in every aspect of life including politics.She said rather than women being at the receiving end, enabling environment should be created for women to participate and be elected into various elective positions.
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