In that light, a lawmaker from Edo State, Honourable Gabriella Omosede Igbinedion brought to the attention of the House a proposed plan to ban female combatant cadets from participating in Nigeria Defence Academy, NDA. Her intervention made the House to call for increase number of female combatant cadets, and as well urged the Armed Forces Council and the Federal Ministry of Defence to halt the plan to stop admission of combatant female cadets into the Nigerian Defence Academy. The motion that led to the House resolution sponsored by Honourable Igbinedion, entitled, “call to halt the proposed plan to stop admission of combatant female cadets into the Nigerian Defence Academy”. What then stops the political parties from affirmative action for women for appointive offices when they win power? We must be prepared to rid ourselves of this pretensions.”As the House move to torchlight the military operations as far as recruitment of female combatant cadets one hope that the female folks would have cause to smile about the outcome of House intervention.

Source: Nigerian Tribune November 22, 2017 01:18 UTC