Anglican women ban indecent dressing, threaten to sanction offenders

by Phil Okose Onitsha

Irked by indecent mode of dressing by some Anglican mothers , the Women Ministry, Diocese on the Niger (Anglican Communion), Anambra State, Sunday read the riot act to members with such penchant for indecent dressing,.

Threatening to teach such offenders unforgettable lesson, the Ministry said also that it has henceforth proscribed indecent dressing stating that it would not hide its dislike of the ways most mothers today dress in the name of modern fashion and worried how some had forgotten they were Christian mothers.

President of the Women Ministry,, Dr. Mrs. Nonyelum Nwokolo, made the threat in her Presidential address delivered during the annual conference of the women held at St James Anglican Church, Awada, near Onitsha, that ended Sunday.

Frowning at 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”.

The Women President who is the wife of the Anglican Bishop on the Niger, Most Rev.Dr. Owen Nwokolo, while describing the act as morally unacceptable, 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”