GBARPOLU – The President of Gbarpolu County’s rural women’s organization, Bendu Jah, has come under fire from several women in the county, who are calling for her removal from the post. Rural
Reporters News Network (RRNN) has reliably gathered women of Gbarpolu County have already declared a vote of no confidence in Jah, and are calling for her unconditional removal as president of the Gbarpolu County Rural Women organization.
During the observance of International Rural Women’s Day recently, in Koniga Chiefdom, Bopolu District, Gbarpolu County, Marten Kamara, a representative of the aggrieved women who want their president removed, accused the embattled president of meting out disrespect to other women in the county.
According to Kamara, Jah has for too long meted out disrespect to women of Gbarpolu, stating; “For too long rural women have been disrespected by the Rural Women President Madam Bendu Jah in Gbarpolu County.”
The aggrieved women are also accusing President Jah of failing to be accountable to members of the Gbarpolu women group.
Kamara stated that during Gbarpolu’s last county-sitting in June 2021; a delegate at that forum allocated US$5,000 for women of Gbarpolu, but she alleges that since then, there has been no accountability from President Jah to the women in Gbarpolu County regarding how the money was expended.
The aggrieved women called on the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection to probe into the matters between them and Jah.
Howbeit, the embattled president of the Gbarpolu women’s group has welcomed the aggrieved women’s call for a Gender Ministry investigation, adding that she is willing to give an account of her stewardship to the women of Gbarpolu in the event the Ministry launches a probe into the matter.
