An aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan has poured cold water on feminism, insisting that it was not founded to liberate women, but a ploy to manipulate them.
In a tweet on his verified X handle, Omokri illustrated his view with the photograph of the first lady of Botswana, Kaone Boko, who kneeled publicly for husband and President Duma Boko as he was being sworn in to office.
In his tweet, Omokri said, “This is the First Lady of Botswana kneeling in public to her husband, Duma Boko, as he was sworn into office today (Saturday). I am not saying you must also publicly kneel to your husband. I would not ask or expect that from my own wife. No. But at least submit to your husband and respect and accept him as the head of the home.
“This woman is a lawyer and holds a status equivalent to Nigeria’s Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Britain’s King’s Counsel. Yet, she considers all that as less paramount than her duty to show submission to her husband.
“Feminism was not founded to liberate women. It is a ploy to manipulate them. Look at countries where feminism holds sway. Are the women there happy? In New York state, in the USA, more Black babies are being aborted than are being born. Oh, please fact-check me. You should know I don’t play with statistics, unlike a certain man who was arrested and detained at London’s Heathrow Airport.
“Men and women have equal rights before the law, but are not equal in nature. I don’t particularly appreciate that fact, but I accept it, because God is a God of justice, not fairness. I wish we were equal before God, but we are not.
“Even if you look at the act of procreation, God designed it so that it is over the moment the man has had his…(you can fill in the blanks). Each gender has a role, and there is a role for every gender.
“You did not make yourselves. God made you. Therefore, look to His guidance on how to view the world, not to some bitter women taking out their grudge or phallic envy on the world through the feminist movement.
‘Please fact-check me: Botswana’s women are perhaps the most empowered in Africa. They have an 88.2% adult literacy rate, and their women are some of the most educated in the world. But they have kept their culture, and their culture has kept them. You want to adopt a foreign culture, and it is turning you into a vulture.
“Kaone Boko worked on her husband’s campaign and earns very highly in a country with one of the higher per capita incomes in Africa ($7000). Yet, she stoops to conquer while you are still saying, ‘Men are scum’. She has perfected the art of adapting Western culture where it suits her. But many African women have adopted Western culture, whether or not it suits them.”
