"... the role of the parliamentarian is to see that your constituency get what the government provides for them ... children should be educated, women be empowered, pregnant women have free access to healthcare and develop the chiefdoms as well"
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Quoted in Josephine Beoku-Betts & Fredline A. M’Cormack-Hale Women, War and Post-conflict Empowerment (Bloomsbury 2022), p.89.
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Matilda Lansana Minah V
Matilda Yayu Lansana Minah (born 25 March 1935) is Paramount Chief of the Pujehun District in Sierra Leone. She became chief in 1985 after the death of her father, and was elected to parliament in 2018. She is outspoken on women's rights, agriculture and education.
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