Umuada Igbo Nigeria and in Diaspora [with ECOSOC STATUS at the United Nations, New York, U.S.A], is a women organisation formed in 1998 and registered with CAC in 2000 to mobilize women and youth to participate in unity peace-building, good governance, good health, advocacy on issues such as girl education, women and youth empowerment, cultural change, girl child and women inheritance, promotion of culture and development of Nigeria.
“Umuada represents one of the veritable tools in the government of the traditional Igbo setting. Before the advent of the warrant chiefs, county council, or Igwe as the head of a community, Umuada and Nze na Ozo society were the only government of the time which makes the Umuada (daughters of the land) as old as Ndi Igbo, and a vanguard in socio-cultural and socio-political development in the community.”
Working in Nigeria and branches in the UK, USA, and Germany, we are known for supporting Youths and Children Human Rights issues, Economic and Political Empowerment of women. We have, and continue to sponsor visits to orphanage homes, campaign against women abuse, and train women on health, cultural and societal issues.
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We conduct sensitizations on Family Planning, Reproductive Health and Rights during annual August meetings, and rallies in different communities in the five states of South–East and also some part of South-South zone. We have train the trainers and above two hundred and thirty thousand persons have benefited from the programme.
We got a report from Opi community of unnatural/uncultured act of raping old women from 60-80 years by young boys of 17-25 years. On October 15, 2011, we went to Opi to talk to the community and prayed for the cleansing of the land. Later we complained to Enugu State House of Assembly and the matter was resolved. Our organization offer free legal services to rape victims, widows and the needy. We also wade into other rape cases.
We intervened over the case of a woman that adopted a child together with the husband. At the death of the husband, the first son of the man accused the woman of stealing her child. She was arrested by the police, locked up in police cell with the child and her husband’s first daughter. On August 11, 2014, we brought the matter to the attention of the then Commissioner of Police Anambra State, A.U. Gwary who settled the case and warned the son and the Investigating Police officer to desist from such act.
February 21, 2014 the United Nations Mother Tongue day commemoration, we organized lectures because of problems of girls, women, mothers, widows not inheriting their fathers’ or husbands’ property. We invited erudite speakers to speak on the topic. We are now collating the papers to send to various State Houses of Assembly to be passed into law and various Governors to sign it into law to enable girl-child, mother, wife and widow inherit their fathers’ and husbands’ property. This will enable them to be financially viable to take care of themselves and contest elections if they so wish. Umuada Igbo Nigeria is happy that in April 2014, the Supreme Court has voided the Igbo law and custom which forbids a female from inheriting her late father’s estate on the ground that it is discriminatory and conflict with provision of the constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria. The court held that the practice conflicted with section 42(1)(a) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution. The judgment was on the appeal marked: SC.224/2004 filed by Mrs. Lois Chituru Ukeje (wife of the late Lazarus Ogbonna Ukeje) and their son, Enyinnaya Lazarus Ukeje against Cladys Ada Ukeje (the deceased’s daughter).Cladys had sued the deceased’s wife and son before the Lagos High Court, claiming to be one of the deceased’s children and sought to be included among those to administer their deceased’s father’s estate. The trial court found that she was a daughter to the deceased and that she was qualified to benefit from the estate of their father who died intestate in Lagos in 1981.Umuada Igbo Nigeria is now planning advocacy visits, rallies and meetings to communities, villages, and towns to educate them on their inheritance rights. Most of the victims may not have access to Radio and Television.
Umuada Igbo Nigeria and in Diaspora is proposing to build an ultra modern Cancer and diagnostic centre in Nigeria.
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