{"id":212390,"date":"2022-08-24T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T12:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=212390"},"modified":"2022-08-24T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T12:30:48","slug":"poverty-encourages-vote-buying-says-un-women-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/24\/poverty-encourages-vote-buying-says-un-women-rep\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty encourages vote-buying, says UN women Rep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ms Beatrice Eyong, the United Nations Women Representative to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States has stated that poverty is a major cause of vote-buying in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated by Eyong\u00a0when she received the National Officials of Women Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>She said the UN women planned to initiate programmes to curtail the problem of vote-buying in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria reports that CAN women representatives were at the UN House in Abuja to seek for collaboration to end gender-based issues in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have talked about buying and selling of votes and that is a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell you poverty is one of the things that is promoting buying and selling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/10\/2023-labour-party-wont-get-15-votes-in-my-constituency-says-apc-rep-akin-alabi\/\">votes<\/a> and we are thinking that if we do programmes, we may improve women\u2019s income status and other people in the villages,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Eyong said that the two major programmes are Rural Women Economic Empowerment Programme and Market Women Transformational Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have presented our two big programmes, and we are discussing with the minister and approval has been given. The UN is interested and donors are also interested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is, the Rural Women Economic Empowerment Programme, which will be through climate-smart agriculture, which is digitally assisted by our digital platform called \u2018Buy from Women\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo this one is going to respond to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/15\/obiano-flags-off-5th-edition-of-one-youth-one-skill-empowerment-programme-in-anambra\/\">empowerment<\/a> of rural women and I\u2019m happy that you people also work with rural women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second one is the market women transformational initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw that people are working on market women, they are working on petty traders, these are some of the things we are interested in,\u201d Eyong said.<\/p>\n<p>She assured the women of partnership, and commended the interreligious involvement, which she described as wise and a way for more knowledge to be acquired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are a credible partner, we will like to continue our work with you to advance more good things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The National President, WOWICAN, Deaconess Victoria Ihesiulor, said they planned to run programmes to ensure women and youth shun all electoral ills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have planned sensitisation and mobilisation, we need to sensitize our women, call them together and let them know. We then organise training that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/15\/osun-guber-poll-it-is-not-our-duty-to-stop-vote-buying-inec-commissioner\/\">vote-buying<\/a> and payments make one to suffer for many years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 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\u2019s eight years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will suffer for eight years If you don\u2019t vote for the right people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want them to know that getting rice and wrappers will not address one\u2019s challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ihesiulor said WOWICAN had a total of 48 million registered members in different spheres of life across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms Beatrice Eyong, the United Nations Women Representative to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States has stated that poverty is a major cause of vote-buying in Nigeria. 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