 Women inclusion, the need for gender equality in national leadership. Just early this week, for the first time in the history of the world, a woman became the first president of a new republic. I am talking about Dim Sandra Prunile Mensi, who served previously as the head governor general of Barbados under the British monarch and head of state, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. On 30 November 2021, Barbados became a republic of its own and Dim Sandra Mensi became her first president. Looking at the big picture critically, we can see that a woman passed on authority to another woman who in turn is saddled with the responsibility of leading her country and nation into the future. How lovely and encouraging this is to imagine women leaders around the globe. It is imperative that women and men should be given equal opportunities in the key decision making rules in national affairs. The world as it is has gone beyond the constraints of parukial sentiments of patriarchy, where one gender is seen as superior and more efficient than the other. Studies and experiences have debunked the erroneous ideologies of one gender being more intellectually kapibu than the other. For a more progressive, functional, political and leadership environment, gender equality mainstreaming should be implemented. Despite the propaganda for the need of gender equality in key leadership position, Afrika countries are still at the corridors of gender equality mainstreaming. Since traditional beliefs and unprogressively minds are still at the hems of affairs, these misogynistic practices, if not checked, will continue the atrocities of recycled leadership and devalu the need for progressive approach to sustainability. In order to curb discriminatory policies and promote through leadership over biased and patriarchal ideologies, women and men should be given a fair share on issues that has to do with state leadership which could play an important role in projecting meaningful national and foreign policies. More so, we can talk about women participating in leadership and decision making without addressing issues like quality education for gail child, countries or territories that have been forced by violent religious extremism from majorly insodian groups like Boko Haram, Icewap, Taliban tend to have regular occurrences of gails being abducted and prevented from schools and mostly forced into marriages. GBV, domestic violence against women should be addressed legally, not necessarily domestically. Effective policies should be put in place to encourage women effective participation in leadership and governance. In conclusion, an educated woman can make quality decision and express leadership both in and household, her nation and even the world at large. So Juliet, let me through this. The floor is open to the little ladies here. Juliet, we'd like to see you to run for president of Nigeria. Why Ann? Ann is going to run for president of Kenya. I will actually try to wait to see what you guys will say if I speak. But I mean, it's so enthralling, it's so interesting to see that a man has this belief because we think so as well as women. We think we are as good, sometimes better than you guys. But from what you have said, some organizations and some countries have actually implemented this structure of including women in leadership, in governance and all of that. But what I see most of the time is more lip service than really actual positive intention. And I will explain. So we look for a woman that is very submissive, that we can control, that is like a figurehead and just put her on the board if it's a company or put her in government as VP, Vice President, Vice Governor and just say we have a woman there and the woman has no clue as to the governance of what is going on in that organization or in that country. So that's what we have seen. And that is one of the reasons you now come up and still say women are not effective because you also did not put the best woman in that position in the first place. So it's fine that we have this awareness. Some companies actually have it as policies like my organization to have women in management. We have women in our executive committee in our directorship. However, what we need to do further is to ensure that the best fit, what a male or female is put up for the job. And that's where the efficiencies will come out. I'll tell you why. We all have different skill sets but our gender now makes it easier for one gender to have a particular skill set that your dad doesn't normally have. We have this maternal insight that comes natural to us. Exactly. We are patients. Exactly. We have hormones. The hormones can be positive and negative. You guys don't have them on my issue. But if we can bring those things to governments in a positive way, it will bring about growth, it will bring about progress, it will bring a lot of prosperity and it will be good for both the male and the female. So that's more than that. And the world at large. Absolutely. Yeah, I mean, I totally agree. I mean, I'll just say two things very quickly. The first thing is, I mean, I have a wife and two girls. So I'm already outnumbered. So I have no choice to ensure that my daughter becomes president someday, but jokes aside, one of the things that actually people think working against women, that they actually have going on for them, the hormones talked about emotions. Now, you hear a lot of talk about emotional intelligence and women naturally carry those traits of emotions. It's just been able to channel it properly, right? That's on one hand. On the other hand, I have friends that work in banks and they said that when women are head of operations, more often than not, they thrive better than men in those roles. So you saw that women naturally are better managers because they're home, they're managing your money, they're managing the children, they're managing you. These women are the mothers of the home. So a lot of times women have these natural abilities, management abilities, emotional strength, more often than not, that we think is a weakness, can be channeled into a strength because emotional intelligence is everything that everybody is talking about, EQ versus IQ. So I feel that women have all the strengths and need to be channeled. And they should definitely be given a chance. A lot of times. We're thinking about emotions. Victor, before you come in, I want to just chip in something that looks more like a joke. Remember just this in our secondary school? In the military secondary school, we had the commandant, usually Lieutenant Konea, that's my handling the role. So there's this particular female teacher that also has zoom leadership. So we refer to her as mamandant. The commandant for the man, she was mamandant. So I just want to say what emotional intelligence is. Until we fix the, until we fix it's a man's world, and until we fix politics is not for the weak hearted and the women are weak. Now it would be hard for us to correct the disempowered beliefs and they have sold to us, but it would be easier for us to begin to build a new cater, a new generation of people both men and women who can begin to accord equal rights, equity. I said that, you know, sometimes I said, give the best man the job. By man I mean, be the male or female. Give the best person the job, not the right person. So what do we just say, give the best woman the job. Let him mean male or female. That's a problem, right? So you say, give the best woman, that's a program. This is a program. I just think that lots of things are just programmed and we cannot really, we can't intercept the program with this old chap. One of me, old chap, you know what I'm talking about. We can't intercept it, but we can go back to say guys, let's sell you a new program. Once we can sell new programs, then we can create a new outcome, new results and all of that. I think let's begin doing the work, right? The way you are speaking, I don't know whether you call yourself an engineer or a life teacher, but in any case, we need to reprogram the societal mindset to ensure and respect everyone. Women and men should have equal opportunity, equal access to opportunities, governments, position, management, position, business, whatever. So up next is Victor after the break.