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Sunday, October 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Moses Odunwa, has assured radical of the authorities of the lawmakers committedness towards the transition of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Bill presently earlier the House.
He hinted that the existent 7th Ebonyi authorities House of Assembly nether his ticker is highly funny successful the transition of the each important measure which according to him, has passed done the archetypal Reading.
“We are precise very disposed towards passing the measure into instrumentality due to the fact that of its importance. It volition springiness each 1 a consciousness of belonging”
“Ebonyi authorities is highly sex delicate and has fixed women their rightful spot successful each schemes of things, including the legislative limb of government. The authorities has already surpassed 40 percent that is being projected for women.
Speaker Odunwa, disclosed this portion speaking with newsmen weekend successful Enugu during a Validation Meeting with Members of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly towards the Passage of the (DEI) Bill.
Our Correspondent writes that the Bill seeks to found the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission arsenic a level for the promotion of parity and entrenchment of societal justice, and to prohibit favoritism against each manner of persons.
The meeting, which serves arsenic a store for the Ebonyi Lawmakers, was organized by the Women Aid Collective (WACOL), successful concern with National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) with Funding Support from United Nations UN Women done the Government of Canada.
While applauding the Founding Executive Director of WACOL, Professor Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, for what the enactment has been doing since inception, particularly successful the country of women and girls rights, Gender based Violence GBV, the talker noted that the House for the past 2 years had been focused, ensuring people-oriented bills were fixed accelerated passage.
He added that Ebonyi had been moving up of different authorities houses of Assemblies connected bills of authorities and nationalist importance, assuring that the DEI measure would beryllium treated successful a akin manner.
According to him, for the DEI Bill, “We are favourably disposed to walk it and guardant the aforesaid to His Excellency, Dr Francis Nwifuru, for assent into a law.
“The DEI Bill has passed the archetypal speechmaking already; portion the hold it is having is this validation gathering wherever each members volition marque their inputs.
“Ebonyi State has been making past and we person been mostly the archetypal to walk captious people-oriented bills specified arsenic the prisons betterment bill, which got the Assembly a nationalist award; portion different assemblies are inactive studying it.
“For the DEI Bill, we are consenting to walk it. The lone happening is that determination should be...
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