Today is International Women’s Day, and Twitter users are throwing shades at Nigeria’s “s*x for grades” journalist Kiki Mordi.
This is because of her tweet calling on people to boycott Wema Bank for their International Women’s Day message where they allegedly blame women for male patriarchy. So, if you are wondering why Kiki Mordi and Wema Bank are trending on Twitter, here’s why.
Wema Bank in their normal culture sent a mail to its numerous customers to mark International Women’s Day. But unlike the usual message praising women for their strength and potentials, they took it from an unexpected angle.
In their message, they showed empathy for the struggles a career woman doing an 8-5 goes through while striving to be equal with her male counterpart.
However, the last part of the message broke the camel’s back. The message ended stating that it is the same women that “raise patriarchal sons, the bosses who make it difficult for female subordinates, and the friend who won’t speak up when male friends do wrong“.
While Twitter users were confused at this mail; whether it was praising women or throwing shade at them, Kiki Mordi was quick to react.
See her tweet below:
So why are you funding the patriarchy?
Until we take decisive actions to stop putting our very limited resources into businesses that refuse to be gender sensitive, we will keep dancing around in circles.#BoycottWemaBank until they apologize to you. Your money is worth respect
— Kiki Mordi (@kikimordi) March 8, 2020
This tweet did not go down well with Twitter users who called Kiki Mordi a failed journalist, stating that she always goes overboard with her tweets. They accused her of seeing the Wema’s bank message as gender insensitive, when she is supposed to be an unbiased umpire.
See some of their reactions below:
I been think say Kiki Mordi has some sense.
But las Las no brain…Forming bullshit on Twitter always.
Anyway na we make mistake.
We celebrate am for #SexForGrades and since then she come dey form ninja.Unqualified fame can kill
— “I am Naughty” & I don’t care (@SweetVintageW_) March 8, 2020
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So Kiki Mordi ask you to boycott Wema bank that have been in existence for years. Many people who joined her train may not even have an account with Wema bank. While others don’t even know the meaning of BOYCOTT 🙄🙄
World people sef😏😏 pic.twitter.com/VUps7agHdL
— Alfred Stella (@stella_zeal64) March 8, 2020
All the #sexforgrades investigation that kiki mordi does is now looking like fallacy to me now. Cos I don’t expect a feminist in her right sense to tweet that crap on @wemabank TL. Why not shut the f**k up if you don’t have any thing to say. Is like your brain is paining you.
— Adecy Julio (@thatmoiguy) March 8, 2020
Early October 2019, Nigerians and Africa came to know the Journalist, Kiki Mordi, after the young woman exposed the “S*x for grade” tradition prevalent in tertiary universities.
Kiki Mordi who worked as an undercover with BBC Africa, exposed two male lecturers, One from University of Lagos and another in the University of Ghana.
Kiki has since been a prominent voice on Twitter, tweeting on issues relating to feminism and same s*x marriages. Most of the time, some Twitter users always disapproved of her tweets.
So did Kiki go too far by telling people to boycott Wema Bank over their message or was the Wema Bank message gender insensitive?
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