AWLN calls for security, health sectors’ reforms, others
By Njadvara MUSA, Maiduguri
The African Women Leaders’ Network (AWLN) has called for an urgent comprehensive security and health sectors’ reforms to prevent frequent extra-judicial killings across the continent.
AWLN steering committee Chairman, Prof. Funmi Fara-Mallam made the call, on Monday in a statement released to journalists in Maiduguri, Borno state.
“We express our profound sorrow and outrage at the December 25, 2022 extra-judicial murder of Mrs. Bolanle Raheem, a young wife and vibrant lawyer,” stating that she is a mother and was pregnant of twins before she was killed.
While offering women’s condolences, she said: “Bolanle’s gruesome and unwarranted killing is one too many in a persistent culture of police brutality.
She added that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) failed to abide with the rules of engagement and professional ethics.
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She, therefore, demanded for a speedy dispensation of justice by 223 women’s groups under the aegis of the Womanifesto Forum, AWLN, launched in July 2019.
“The women’s organisations seek to enhance the transformative participation of women in decision-making,” she said, adding that this is to achieve inclusive and sustainable peace and development in Africa.
