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Watch Signature 30 Minutes: Women need to establish their own political structure – Oby Ezekwesili

The United Kingdom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to return the sum of £4.2Million stolen assets by Former Delta State Governor, James Ibori. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria Catriona Laing who announced this on Tuesday at the Conference Hall of the Ministry of Justice in Abuja, said this was the first tranche of such planned returns. She said the British Government has resolved to return to the money being part of the funds so far recovered from friends and family members of former Delta Governor, James Ibori. She noted that Ibori’s case is complicated and the United Kingdom authorities were still working on the total actual amount involved in the case. Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who signed for the country, disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the returned loots be deployed to completion of the second Niger Bridge, the Lagos to Ibadan expressway and the Abuja to Kano expressway projects. Nigerian women from all works of life have joined their voices to call for the inclusion of women in the political process. Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesiri in a round table interactive discussion to commemorate the International Women’s Day celebration said that women are not short of the requisite knowledge to partake in the political process. She advised women to establish their own political structure, stressing that women impose a barrier on themselves by believing that leadership belongs to men alone, whereas leadership is gender-neutral.

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