Preamble
Nigeria is a bona fide member of the Organisation of
Petroleum Exporting Countries with its Headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
The Nigerian State, exercising its Sovereign Membership
right, nominated its Minister of Petroleum for consideration as the OPEC”S
Secretary-General.
Whereas Minister Allison Madueke is very well-known to OPEC
and the international oil producing countries as a knowledgeable technocrat,
the OPEC, it is reported, refused to appoint her to the post she was
recommended to fill by the Federal Government of Nigeria on the discriminatory
basis that she is a woman.
1)OPEC”s decision violates the right of the Nigerian
state to choose its representative.
2) The decision violates all known Declarations and
Conventions on Human Rights( to be listed in our main legal contentions, in due cause).
It violates the recently concluded London Declaration on
Violence Against women.
BOSAS INTERNATIONAL LAW BUREAU condemns the discriminatory
decision and urges the OPEC to rescind its shameful and retrogressive action
against the Nigerian recommended representative.Internal political wranglings,
unproven allegations and innuendos are inchoate reasons for the application
consideration.
We are determined to pursue this OPEC decision to the UN
Human Rights Commission,the African Commission on Human Rights, the European
Court of Human Rights, the United Nations
Security Council and the General Assembly of the United
Nations Organisation.
We shall urge the Nigerian Federal Government to suspend,
with immediate effect, relations with those bearded Arab Sheiks, who still
treat women as inferior and as sacrificial
harem objects in the 21st century.
