Politicians Involve In Vote-Buying Because Of Poverty In The Nation: UN
Beatrice Eyong, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS says poverty is a major cause of vote-buying in Nigeria. PeoplesGazette reports.
Mr Eyong said this when she welcomed the national officials of the women wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (WOWICAN) in Abuja. Information Guide Nigeria
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“We have talked about buying and selling of votes, and that is a challenge. I tell you, poverty is one of the things that is promoting buying and selling of votes, and we are thinking that if we do programmes, we may improve women’s income status and other people in the villages,” said the UN representative. jamb results
According to Ms Eyong, the two major programmes are the Rural Women Economic Empowerment Programme and Market Women Transformational Initiative.
“I’m happy that you people also work with rural women,” Ms Eyong told the CAN women. “The second one is the market women transformational initiative. I saw that people are working on market women. They are working on petty traders. These are some of the things we are interested in.”
She assured the women of partnership and commended the interreligious involvement, which she described as wise and a way of acquiring more knowledge.
“You are a credible partner. We will like to continue our work with you to advance more good things. I am very happy that we have this collaboration with the Muslim women. We have to also involve them because they too will have other people,” she said.
Victoria Ihesiulor, WOWICAN national president, said they planned to run programmes to ensure women and youth shun all electoral ills.
“We have planned sensitisation and mobilisation. We need to sensitise our women, call them together and let them know. We then organise training that vote-buying and payments make one suffer for many years,” stated Ms Ihesiulor.
“By the time they come and give you N5,000, N10,000 or even N20,000, after spending that money, the person enters for four years and takes another four years, that’s eight years. You will suffer for eight years If you don’t vote for the right people.”
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