By Paul Onomuakpokpo
Through their numerous
feats in different spheres of human endeavour, many a woman has vitiated the
wrongheaded diatribe of the iconoclastic German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
that “when a woman has scholarly inclinations there is something wrong with her
sexuality.”
Clearly, women could
justifiably declaim against Nietzsche’s notion of woman as God’s second
mistake. But it is not unlikely that Nietzsche’s opinion would have enjoyed a
fair measure of validity if he had had the Nigerian woman in mind and declared
that she suffers an unhinged sexuality as long as she has political
inclinations. Nietzsche’s postulation could even be much more valid in a place
like Saudi Arabia
where women only secured the right to vote in just about three years ago.
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2015 Presidential Election: Where Are The Women?
By Banji Ojewale
In politics if
you want anything said ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman – Margret
Hilda Thatcher, ex-British Prime Minister
Last year the government in Romania heeded this counsel from
the late British leader, Baroness Thatcher. The authorities, gravely worried by
high profile corruption slowly killing the country, appointed a woman, Laura
Codruta Kovesi, to man the nation’s National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA).
Within a very short time this 41-year-old 1995 law graduate has turned the formerly
quiescent agency into a viable attack dog mauling down those who had
themselves been bringing down the economy and politics of Romania with
their corrupt practices.
*Laura Codruta Kovesi
She has become the most feared public office holder on account of her
exploits in an attempt to do what was thought to be impossible: battling graft
in high places to a standstill and arresting its spread. Although as in Nigeria , she is
horrified that the citizens have expressed
distaste for corruption, they still keep voting for politicians
suspected or convicted of larceny. “ It
is extremely difficult to explain this contrast,” Kovesi laments.
But according to an international news magazine report last week, this
depressing situation has not discouraged
the woman. A New York Times writer, Andrew Higgins, says: “Since Ms. Kovesi
took over D.N.A last year, what was a trickle of high-profile arrests and
prosecutions has become a flood. Nearly all have ended in convictions, with her
prosecutors recording a success rate of over 90 percent.
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