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Richard Hamilton Muthoni Muchiri
BBC World Service newsroom BBC News
The trial of a prominent journalist in the Democratic Republic of Congo has resumed in the capital Kinshasa, with the prosecution calling for a prison sentence of 20 years. Men should not feel threatened as women stride forward in the world of work, says the first woman to lead First Bank of Nigeria in its 130-year history.
Stanis Bujakera was arrested in September after writing an article in the magazine Jeune Afrique, alleging that an opposition politician, Cherubin Okende, was assassinated by intelligence officers. Speaking at the Oxford Business Forum in the UK, Ibukun Awosika said it was time to be more radical:
In July, Okende's body had been found in a car riddled with bullets. We're dealing with mindsets of time - in multiple cultures. It’s about resetting how we think.
The prosecutor's office maintained he had killed himself. In resetting, my challenge for the girls is this - you can’t wait for the time when everyone else understands it. If we had to wait for that, we'd still be waiting.
Human Rights Watch described Mr Bujakera's case as politically motivated and Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi suggested he'd been the victim of what he called "sick justice". For the guys, be open-minded enough to understand, when girls wins - you win!"
The press freedom campaign group, Committee to Protect Journalists, is calling for Mr Bujakera's "immediate and unconditional release".
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