Contest #3 Tell us About "A Freedom Fighter of Your Country" by @jasminemary

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Margaret Ekpo was a Nigerian women’s freedom fighter and social activities who was a great female politician in the country’s First Republic. She was born in Creek Town, Cross River State. She was married to a doctor, John Udo Ekpo, and they later moved to Aba where she played major roles as a grassroots and nationalist politician who fought for the success of Nigeria.

She obtain a diploma at the new Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin Ireland. On her return to Nigeria, she founded a Domestic Science and Sewing Institute in Aba. In 1954, she established the Aba Township Women Association and that led to an outnumbering of men voters by women voters in the city election thatbwas held the next year. The Calabar International Airport was named after Margaret Ekpo in 2001, sadly she got demise five years later.

Margaret Ekpo was pushed into legislative issues by some coincidence.
In 1945, her late spouse, Dr. Ekpo, had taken extraordinary exemption for the unfair acts of the Pioneer Chairmen of Aba General Medical clinic. In any case, he was a government employee, thus, Dr. Ekpo couldn't go to the gatherings coordinated by Nigerians to challenge these arrangements.

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Margaret Ekpo faced challenges that female legislators, even today, probably won't take. Thus, her activism recorded significant good triumphs on two critical events. In 1949, a shooting occurrence happened in Enugu when coal diggers mentioned a compensation increment.

Their ring chiefs were shot by the Pilgrim Heads for setting out to request what was their right. Margaret Ekpo connected with different ladies bunches around the nation and they pronounced a day of public grieving for the Colliery shooting casualties. This encouraged cause to notice the prople, in Nigeria, however the whole way across the world.

Margaret Ekpo's political history stop with the beginning of the Nigerian common war. During the war, she was kept by Biafran experts for a very long time. Nonetheless, given the strength of character that Margaret Ekpo displayed in her political vocation, her assurance to prevail throughout everyday life and effect her general public would have discovered articulation in some alternate manner. Male or female, Boss Mrs. Margaret Ekpo is basically an extraordinary woman in Nigeria that can never be forgotten.