By Uche Onyeali
West African Action Network on Small Arms, WAANSA, Nigeria has lauded the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Small Arms Division on its commitment to gender inclusion in peace building mechanism and arms control.
President of WAANSA Nigeria, Temitope Lamidi, who was also part of the regional disarmament workshop in Accra, Ghana, which brought women of all categories together to educate them on how not to be used as gun runners, noted that making themselves available for such crimes would increase gender-based violence.
Lamidi also gave kudos to Oxfam whose commitment to eradicate gender-based violence remains equal to none.
Speaking alongside the director of Operations, WAANSA Nigeria, Lamidi also lauded the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence, Senator Joel Onowakpo, whom they said had remained a credible leadership reference point in the area of gender empowerment, grassroots peace and good governance advocate.
The network appealed to other Nigerian leaders to emulate the leadership skills of Senator Onowakpo, as doing that would guarantee equitable distribution of democratic dividends which the country needs to reclaim her enviable position in the comity of nations.
The WAANSA president appealed to the ECOWAS chairman to consider the revisitation of sanctions on Niger Republic as the prolonged sanctions had brought hardship to both countries, even as economic activities had gone to point zero, making women to suffer the most.
“While we thank the ECOWAS chairman for listening to us, we will be making our position on the way forward for sustainable peace and economic resuscitation of countries affected by sanctions soon,” Lamidi noted.
[05/12, 7:34 pm] Jamike Vital Pilot: ECOWAS Commission Political Affairs, Peace and Security and other women leaders with WAANSA President, Barr. Temitope Lamidi, in Ghana during a UNDIR Programme
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