It’s always amazing to see the way people try to malign women who work as hard as men to be successful in what they do.
A few years ago, I was arrested for driving against the traffic, whereas I only got to see the signboard after I had entered the said road and there was no way I could reverse because it was too narrow.
I was arrested, and after my fine was read to me, I just crossed the road to a nearby ATM, withdrew the money and paid.
You’d think that should end the story, but my tribulation had just begun! The government touts that arrested me were obviously stunned that a woman could pay N10K fine without blinking. So, they became psychologically abusive. They called me a prostitute and said I could only drive the car I was using then — a Lexus 300 o! — because a boyfriend bought it for me.
I was 51; yet, at that age, only a gift from a boyfriend [not even a husband!] could give me the standard of life I managed to live.
By the time I went past my 30th birthday, I had thought the horrid label ‘prostitute’ in whatever form it is used was over for me as a woman; but even in old age, we could still be old who.res. Such is the wretchedness of those who think a woman has no chance with success unless a man gifts her in exchange for her body.
A self-acclaimed celebrity investigative journalist once narrated, without batting an eyelid, how a highly accomplished young colleague of mine only became an Editor because she had a child for the Editor-in-Chief.
When I told his followers to Google the name of the lady being lied against, he blocked me.
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Meanwhile, as I read the incredible lie, I was shocked beyond words because I know the two people that were mentioned in the insanely untrue claim. While I am not privy to anybody’s bedroom matter, the truth is, the said lady was single and, as of then, she didn’t have a child. But then, she is a successful young woman and only a male/males can make her incredibly successful. Period.
No one should suffer indignities on account of being a woman.
Why these dirty stories this holy morning?
Well, Gistlover decided to publish the names and phone numbers of Senate President Godswill Akpabio, his wife and those of his alleged girlfriends, past and present, married or single, to punish him for being caustic to female senators.
If that isn’t bizarre, I don’t know what is. You want to draw attention to misogyny by dragging women in the mud? Incredible.
One of the accused is Hilda Baci. Her sin? She allegedly drives an SUV whose price runs into millions of naira and her accusers are very certain that she couldn’t afford it on her own. That’s the same Hilda that stayed up for days to win Guinness World Record after about two years of prior preparations o!
Another accused person is Nollywood actress Dakore Egbuson, who is offering N5m to anyone that can prove her connection to Akpabio.
Assuming for a moment that the story is true by any stretch of the imagination, how does this serve as a recrimination against the senate president’s alleged malicious stance against women in the senate?
And why do people find it difficult to accept the fact that a woman can achieve success without trading her body for it?
Sometime ago, a young woman was trending because she had made a success of her career and everyone was congratulating her until this reprehensible friend from Dante’s inferno tweeted that he knew her nude might soon surface and that it was the reason he was keeping vigil on the trend. Imagine!
As for those women who have been maligned by Gistlover, they should petition its host as well as the appropriate government agencies.
No one should suffer indignities on account of being a woman.
