A Nigerian woman, Faith Essien has challenged the current status quo of how women are treated when it comes to the sharing of property between family members.
She calls out the prevalent tradition within most Nigerian households where the women are usually left with little to nothing after a family property is shared.
Tired of this outdated practice she urges women to fight for their rights, as they too are entitled to their own share of the property.
She asserts that her claims are backed up by the Nigerian constitution, hence if necessary one can take such matters to court to fight for what’s rightfully theirs.
Read her full statement here;
“If your Father owns even a plot of land or a small house and as a Woman, you don’t own a part of it, you should forget about Feminism,” she wrote.
Everything your Father owns is your right as a woman. Like your full right.
If your father’s house is one room, your brother shouldn’t live there, the house should be rented out and rent shared equally amongst all the children of the family. Or if your brother wants to stay there, he should pay you rent.
Start your equality with the Male in your family. Negotiate peacefully with them, but if they prove stubborn, hire a lawyer and go to court.
The laws of the federal Republic of Nigeria gives you full and equal rights of inheritance as your Male siblings. In the eyes of law, there’s no gender supremacy.
If anybody tells you they will marry you out and as such you don’t deserve a part in your family property, tell all the men that a woman from another family will also marry them.
Family properties are collective efforts of Father and Mother, so why do mothers keep quiet and watch their daughters being cheated??? That nonsense should stop.
If you feel your girl child shouldn’t inherit your property and doesn’t deserve equal treatment as your Male child, Kpai her at birth.
There’s no justifiable reason why any woman should not own equal part of her family property with her brothers.
Dear woman, My advice to you is, as you travel for Christmas, tell your Father and kinsmen that you want a share in your family properties.”
She also advised women on the steps to take to ensure their names are secured in their parent’s will.
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