Most companies, corporate and political bodies are not ready to hire women for top executive positions. This is more as a result of stereotypes and not about what each party can bring to the table. Nothing in our genes favors any gender for leadership positions.

The only reason I feel we have government is because as human beings, we are wired to need hierarchy, even animals; it’s not for power tussle

There are people who I call vicious in my book. I named them in my book. One of them wrote a book and created the impression that I was nobody in the June 12 struggle.

The driving vision of the ASSN is that of an African security sector that is democratically governed, people-centred, well managed, accountable and effective. The central feature of the ASSN vision is to promote an African-centred approach, which involves drawing primarily from indigenous knowledge, expertise and resources to support democratic security sector governance and design SSR programmes both pragmatic and sustainable.

I have an unbelievable optimism about life that it is hard to lose hope in anything