 Honourable Miriam Onoha has urged the federal government to declare a state of emergency on the dwindling number of women in the parliament for equity and inclusive VT. The lawmaker, who is representing Okigwin-North in Emo State, made a call in a budget today, Wednesday, during her declaration of interest for the Office of Speaker of the Tenth Legislative Assembly. She says her emergency speaker will usher in a pragmatic solution to the current challenges of national cohesion. She added that Nigeria's protocol list can no longer be taken without the female gender on it, while appealing for her to her fellow male contestants to step down for her. Something drastic, something deliberate has to be done to ensure that the number of women participation in politics is increased. We are all aware that the last election witnessed low turnout, low turnout owing to the fact partly that women who largely control the votes might have been cut out owing to the fact that there is poor inducement of their fellow women to vote. And even with the small numbers that came out, over 60 percent of the voters have been proved to be women. How best and how best can these Nigerian-themen, Nigerian-female voters be rewarded if not by collecting a woman on the presiding seat of the National Assembly and the House of Representatives, in particular? Honourable Onoha went on to reel out a seven-point agenda for the Tenth National Assembly under her watch, which includes the digitisation of activities of rules and business committee, improvement of the legislative policy action to promote the interest of women and vulnerable groups among others. She assured that her imagines will create opportunities for National Assembly stakeholders' engagement to provide access for public participation in lawmaking. It is not possible for a man to speak for us on issues that border women, when we have credible and qualified women like myself, I am ranking and also on the Congress, I qualify and I suitably am able to ask all the men on this contest. And like you are aware, in almost all about 90 positions of this country, the men have dominated it. Siding this one position to me will be a way of proving that we are running an inclusive settlement.