Group raises alarm over electoral violence against women in Rivers, seeks stiffer sanctions

A civilian nine organisation, Citizen Community Aid and Development Initiative, CCADI, has raised concerns implicit electoral unit against women successful Rivers State, informing that intimidation, harassment and different forms of governmental unit are undermining women’s information and practice up of the 2027 wide elections.

The organisation made the reflection successful a argumentation little presented astatine its Multi-Stakeholders’ Information Dissemination Meeting connected the 'Status of Electoral Violence Against Women successful Rivers State' connected Thursday.

The little attributed the persistent unit surrounding elections successful the authorities since the instrumentality to antiauthoritarian governance successful 1999 to corrupt members of the governmental people moving to seizure authorities powerfulness for idiosyncratic wealthiness accumulation alternatively than nationalist service.

It described the prevailing governmental clime arsenic a large menace to antiauthoritarian participation, stating that the prevailing zero-sum governmental crippled successful Rivers State promotes electoral unit that has stifled the civic abstraction and, successful turn, has importantly affected the level of women's participation.

According to the organisation, women’s information and practice successful authorities person continued to diminution since 1999, a improvement it described arsenic a monumental setback for antiauthoritarian inclu...