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Gambo Sawaba Quotes

1933–2001 Nigeria

Hajiya Gambo Sawaba (15 February 1933 – 15 October 2001) was a Nigerian politician, women's rights activist and philanthropist. She was a leading member of the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) and one of the foremost advocates for women's political participation and social justice in Northern Nigeria.

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Random Gambo Sawaba quote

5 quotes

"Politics in the country has lost its flavour and is no longer a game of ideology, but a game of self-aggrandisement."

"My front teeth are artificial. The originals were broken and pulled out."

"There is no opening in my body – mouth, nostrils, eyes or anywhere else – from which blood did not gush out because of torture."

"I was beaten up by six men and left to die in a bush."

"If I don't know book, I know rights. I have not been a member of any House of Assembly. I have not held any office except that I was a member of the House of Prison."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gambo Sawaba (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.