Indecent Dressing:  “Try it and be sanctioned!”, Diocese on the Niger women 

… as Ministry warns members

By Alex Uzoigwe

The Women Ministry, Diocese on the Niger (Anglican Communion), Anambra State, went tough recently when it read the riot act to members with penchant for indecent mode of dressing, threatening to teach such offenders unforgettable lessons.

The ministry said it would not hide its dislike of the ways it remarked most  mothers today dress in the name of modern fashion and worried how some had forgotten they were christian mothers.

Dr Nonyelum Nwokolo, the President of the Women Ministry, made public the threat and its consequences in the Presidential Address she delivered at the just concluded annual conference of the women held at St James Anglican Church, Awada, near Onitsha.

Regretting the mode of dressing of some women in the society today, she said, “Majority of our mothers and our daughters seem to have sworn never to be decent in the way they dress. They just put on anything in the name of a trending fashion”.

While describing the act as morally unacceptable, she explained that it was a shame for a Christian mother to dress like a woman of easy virtues.

Proscribing the said indecent dressing in the diocese, Dr Nwokolo stressed, “As we strongly condemn all forms of indecent dressing among christian mothers in this diocese, I want to categorically state that we will not hasitate to sanction any of our mothers found to have dressed indecently in a manner that does not befit a christian mother. 

 “We cannot tolerate indecent dressing among our women in this diocese. We, as mothers should dress very responsibly like christian mothers we profess to be”, she further emphasized, adding, “We are expected to be role models in everything we do, including our mode of dressing”.