Youth in Parliament C’ttee vows to champion women’s reserved seats Bill

By Christiana Ekpa

The House of Representatives Committee on Youths in Parliament has pledged to champion the advocacy on the Constitution Alteration Bill to provide Special Seats for Women in the National and State Houses of Assembly.
The Chairman of the committee, Rep. Olamijuwonlo Alao-Akala (APC-Oyo) made the pledge while addressing newsmen on the sideline of stakeholders interactive session in Abuja on Tuesday.
The interactive session was organised by the Legislative Advocacy Committee on the Reserved Seat for Women bill, set up by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen with the mandate to mobilise lawmakers and stakeholders for the bill.
The bill seeks to create a total of 108 additional seats in the National and State Houses of Assembly to contested for by women across the country.
At the interactive session, the committee on youth in parliament was inaugurated to carry out campaigns in favour of the bill and to lobby other lawmakers to support the bill.
Alao-Akala said that the committee endorses the bill and will do everything within its powers to ensure the bill is passed.
“So I am happy that the goal was given to me. I am going to take it head on, I am going to ensure that every stone will be turned to ensure that we go into the bill and ensure that every layman can understand the clauses and also accept it.
“A lot of people that do not understand the bill, they feel the bill is going to affect the current position of the legislature, but it is not going to affect it.
“So those are the kind of sensitisation we will do for the people to understand this bill; it is a bill that will assist us in governance, assist us in development, and assist us in moving the country forward, locally and also in the international community.