WHAT WE DO

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• Umuada Igbo has a very large population of about 15million. Our Headquarters is in Enugu, Nigeria, West Africa. Umuada Igbo Nigeria was formed in 1998. Lolo Kate Ezeofor is the Founder. Umuada Igbo Nigeria is a National and International Organisation formed to mobilize and organize women and youth to participate in the process of Unity, Peace-building, Good Governance, family planning and reproductive health and right, women and youth empowerment, cultural change advocacy on issues such as girl child and women inheritance, promotion on Igbo Language and Culture, development of Igbo Land, Nigeria and any country wherever we find ourselves.

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UMUADA IGBO NIGERIA AND IN DIASPORA ACHIEVEMENTS

1. WOMEN INHERITANCE RIGHT IN IGBO CULTURE IS A BIZARRE

❖ In Igbo culture women and girls are not allowed to inherit their fathers property and if they are married and have up to six daughters they widows do not inherit their father’s property.

❖ Many cases on inheritance come to our office, some complained that their brother’s  in–law drove them out of their matrimonial  home because they do not have male children

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• ​❖ In 2014 Umuada Igbo organized  Workshop/ Seminar during Umuada Igbo Mother Tongue Day Celebration at Cathedral of Good Shepherd to discuss Women Inheritance right on Igbo culture.

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• ❖ Umuada Igbo Nigeria has been fighting to stop discrimination of women on the inheritance of their parents and husbands.

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• ❖ In April  2014 the Supreme Court of Nigeria  the last hope of the common man and the down trodden came down with the land mark decision in the case of Mrs. Lios Ukeje & anor v. Mrs. Ada Ukeje  (2014) 4 SCI Page 1, Onyibor Aniekwe v. Mrs. Maria Nweke (2014) 4 SC part III page 65, in the two cases the Supreme Court declared the customary law in Igbo land which disinherits women from inheriting their father’s or husband’s property null and void for being in breach of the fundamental human right  provision in the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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• ❖ Making the law is one thing but the women in the rural area knowing  the law is another

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• ❖ Umuada Igbo Nigeria organizes Seminar/Workshop/ Town Hall meetings/ August Meeting  in the villages to educate them about the Supreme Judgment on human inheritance in Igbo Culture.

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• ❖ Our Organization has legal  section where we take up Women Inheritance in Igbo Culture case from Police to Court and for other poor women and other cases free of charge.

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• 2. RAPE AND DEFILEMENT INTERVENTION

• ❖ A reported case of raping 60 – 80 years women by boys of 17 – 25 were reported to our office. We went there for cleansing of the land and talked to the people, we later took the matter to Enugu House of Assembly, the rape saga was then stopped.

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• 3. RESCUE OF A WIDOW ACCUSING OF STEALING HER CHILD 

• ❖ AIG AU Gwarry Fmr. Commissioner of Police as he then was helped us to free the women and her adopted son from Police cell accuse of stealing her son. We called him AIG AU Gwarry  and AIG with a human face, we like him for that singular act of listening  to us and taking his time timeously.

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• ❖ Umuada Igbo Nigeria gives Micro Credit to indigent women and youths.  

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