Nairabet Owner, Akin Alabi Vows To Defend Single Women Who Suffer This Specific Discrimination
Nairabet owner, Akin Alabi has promised to deal with landlords who refuse to rent out their house to single women in his constituency. The dad-of-two who represents Egbeda/Ona Ara Federal Constituency at the House of Assembly, took to Twitter shortly after he assumed office to make this warning.
He called it discrimination against single women for landlords to refuse to rent apartments to them on the basis of their being spinsters.
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The newly elected House of Reps member must be reacting to the growing complaints by single women of how they are not shown respect and are repeatedly turned down by landlords because they have no husbands.
A Twitter user, @TillyTate tweeted some months back that she had to lie to a landlord that she was married but her husband is based overseas after she repeatedly got looked down on for being single and it became clear to her that her spinsterhood was getting in the way of her securing an accommodation.
The honourable member tweeted:
“Any landlord in that turns down a woman in my constituency in Ibadan because she is single will see my red eye from next month.
There is something called discrimination. I won’t rent my house to single women. I won’t rent my house to blacks etc is DISCRIMINATION.
Anyone that’s suffers this will have my backing and support to take on such landlords.”
See original tweet below:
Any landlord in that turns down a woman in my constituency in Ibadan because she is single will see my red eye from next month.
— Oloye Akin Alabi (@akinalabi) May 30, 2019