Crusader Wants Women To Take Suspects On Bail

A women leader and
social crusader, Mrs Kelechi Akpelu, has called on the Rivers State judiciary to accord women equal rights with men by allowing the former to take suspects on bail as sureties.
Mrs. Akpelu, who was speaking at a public forum organised in Port Harcourt at the weekend noted that the denial of women from taking suspects on bail as sureties was a travesty of the right of the equality of the human persons.
She remarked that the same denial was a breach of  their constitutional right of freedom from discrimination.
The women leader pointed out that it was wrong for women to be relegated to the background. According to her, “the iniquitious inequality between women and men still persists in our society today, so we cannot fold our hands and watch our rights trampled upon. It is only proper that we rise up to frontally confront the challenges that denigrate women.”
“That is why, we in “Women for Better Society” have resolved to put hands on deck to ensure that women enjoy equality with men. Women and men complement each other so there should not be any superiority or inferiority complex on the part of any.”
Mrs Akpelu said that women should be accorded all the rights that accrue to the human person because they were not inferior by any stretch of imagination to the men.
She said equality among men and women, black and white would further strengthen the human race.
The women leader, however, enjoined women to shun timidity and brace up towards solving the multiplicity of challenges that confront the human race.
She noted that the society would be a better place if everybody enjoyed equality.

John Enyie