Girls who live in less developed areas barely have access to these essential commodities while women who are low-income earners are finding it difficult to buy them.
Using the hashtag, #EndThe9jaTaxOnPads, these women are sharing their stories online to urge the government to end the tax on sanitary pads so as to make them more accessible.
See some of their tweets below:
No girl child deserves to use rags or tissue because she can’t afford sanitary pads.
No girl child deserves to wear one pad throughout a day because she want to manage.
Sanitary pads should be affordable for every woman#EndThe9jaTaxOnPads
bought pad today and I wanted to cry. The cost is outrageous. One costs about #700 and it’s 7 in one. I may use 4 a day and this can last for 6days. Do the sum. I may be able to afford it but what about others who can’t and bleed excessively for 7days. #EndThe9jaTaxOnPads
— Mjay (@Harv3lLa_) October 20, 2018
The average woman in Nigeria is having to spend between 1,000-1,500 naira every month on buying Pads because of their periods. In a year that’s about 18,000 naira- and imagine that most women will have a monthly period for about 30 years on the average.#EndThe9jaTaxOnPads
— YourFavOnlineDoctor (@DrOlufunmilayo) October 21, 2018
I’m joining this campaign because I know that everytime I get my pads I always complain about the cost,and I’m a working class lady yet I complain. Then I think of the students,poor girls and poor mothers who can’t afford it. It’s just not right. #EndThe9jaTaxOnPads
— Rose Rozay Akai (@rozirozay) October 20, 2018
SANITARY PADS should be free, CONDOM should be sold.
Sex is a choice, menstruation is a must. #End9jaTaxOnPads#End9jaTaxOnPadspic.twitter.com/q5h7yr1zpH— 💕Omidanabeni💕(@omidanabeni) October 20, 2018
Free pads Give women Extra Life.
How?
Average of a 5 day period cycle every month.
We have 12 Mths a Year
5 × 12 = 60. Then 60÷30 days = 2.
I.e A woman spends an average of 2months a Year having her period which comes with its own challenges. we must #EndThe9jaTaxOnPads— Tims ∞ (@DurojayeRotimi) October 20, 2018
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