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The Property of Representatives has mandated its committees on Defence, Army, Navy and Air Force to investigate claims of plans to scrap the training of female cadets in the Nigerian Defence Academy to be commissioned as regular combatant officers in the armed forces.


The joint committee was provided four weeks to report back to the House for further legislative action.


Regardless of Tuesday’s statement by the Director Defence Data, Defence Headquarters, Significant-General John Enenche, describing a newspaper report as an act of disinformation, the Property stressed that stopping female cadets from coaching as combatants will quantity to policy reversal which is hugely detrimental to Nigerian women.


Enenche mentioned in the statement created accessible to Daily Sun, that the provision in the terms and situation of service for female officers in the Nigerian military, stipulates that girls are eligible for all commissions open to males. He insisted that the provision has not been changed.


Meanwhile, the resolution of the Residence was subsequent to the adoption of a motion on the "Call to Halt the Proposed Plan to Cease Admission of Combatants Female Cadet into the Nigerian Defence Academy", sponsored by a member, Omosede Igbinedion.


Major the debate on the motion, Igbinedion cited Section 42 (1) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, saying, this section protects Nigerian women against discrimination primarily based on their gender.


The lawmaker also stated that the story on stopping females from education as combatants implies the federal government is acting contrary to Beijing Declaration of 1995 which Nigeria is signatory to.


She maintained that affirmative action such as the Beijing Declaration must be viewed in good light, especially in a building nation like Nigeria, exactly where ladies empowerment is a certain route to growth and improvement.


"Institutions are typically established to market the provisions of the constitution and not to breach them like the move to finish the admission of female cadets seems to suggest", Igbinedion said of the alleged plans by the NDA to retain out female cadets.


When place up for a voice, by Deputy Speaker Yussuff Lasun, who presided more than plenary, yesterday, the motion was unanimously adopted by members.