Who was Alimotu Pelewura?
Alimotu Pelewura was the courageous and extremist lady who drove the Lagos Market Ladies’ Affiliation (LMWA) in its restrictions to the tax assessment strategy and other ominous mandates of the English pilgrim government.
Alimotu Pelewura was brought into the world in 1865, in Lagos, to a polygynous family. She was the oldest of the two kids brought into the world by her organic mother. She assumed control over her mom’s control of fish exchanging and rose from being a standard fish merchant to the main market lady in Lagos.
In 1910, she was given a chieftaincy title by Oba Eshugbayi Eleko. During the 1920s, she turned into the top of the meat market and later, with the assistance of her political partner, Herbert Macaulay, she turned into the head of the Lagos Market Ladies Affiliation (LMWA).
As the head of LMWA, she utilized her situation and impact to go against negative arrangements passed by the then English provincial government. Pelewura, a uninformed fish broker, employed such an excess of force that she turned into a worry to the pioneer government.
Dismissing a few prison dangers, Pelewura proceeded with her activism and battles to make life more straightforward for ladies, market ladies particularly. In 1932, she drove other market ladies in the dissent against forced tax collection, and the cost control plan which was prominently called the ‘Pullen Plan’ after Commander A.P. Pullen, its chief.
Likewise during the 1930s, she drove areas of strength for an against the movement of Ereko market to the Oluwole area of Lagos. She got herself imprisoned yet was in the end delivered after a few revitalizes and dissents by Lagos market ladies.
Alimotu Pelewura.
Likewise, Alimotu Pelewura was politically cognizant during her days. In 1939, she joined the Nigerian Association of Youthful leftists (NUYD), an ideological group firmly connected with Herbert Macaulay’s NNDP. She was likewise an individual from the Nigerian Ladies’ Party drove by Oyinkan Abayomi. In 1947, barely any years prior to her demise, Alimotu Pelewura was given the title of ‘Erelu’ for profoundly addressing and advancing the interests of ladies.
Alimotu Pelewura kicked the bucket in 1951 and was prevailed by Abibatu Mogaji, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s mom. Alimotu Pelewura will perpetually stay quite possibly of the best lady throughout the entire existence of Nigeria.
