Following the political tension in Nigeria over the activities of agitation groups and level of insecurity in the country, the Amalgamation of Northern Woman Associations in Nigeria has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to hold a referendum on the agitation for a Biafran state.
Speaking with journalists on Saturday at the Unity Fountain in Abuja before they embarked on the demonstration, Hadiza Adamu, coordinator of the coalition, said women in the north are at the receiving end because their husbands and brothers have been allegedly killed in the south-east.
Adamu said people should be allowed to belong to a country or leave, adding that their agitation should not end in war.
“We are the amalgamation of northern women from all parts of the north, north-central, north-west and north-east. We as mothers are always at the receiving end of any war, insurrection, killings, and acts of terror,” she said.
“It is for this reason that we come together today and say we don’t want another war, another insurrection.
“When our men were killed, we were raped and our children rendered orphans, we have nowhere to run to. Nigerian history has shown that women carry the heavy burden of war and acts of insurrections and terrorism.
“We have gone through it from 1967 to 1971, our men died and left us with the children to cater for out of nothing, other men that survived simply moved on, but we never moved on.
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