The Nigerian Senate includes some of the
brightest minds in our country many of whom are friends of mine and most
of whom have been in active politics for many years. They have my respect.
However what transpired in the Senate chamber a few days ago was a
great cause for concern for not just me but millions of Nigerians from
all over the world. How an innocent and seemingly uninteresting,
uninspiring and unimportant debate about when and at what age a Nigerian
citizen could legitimately and lawfully renounce his or her citizenship
turned into a referendum on paedophilia and child marriage I dont know.
Yet sadly that is precisely what happened and ever since then the
nation has been on fire.
Senator (ex-Governor) Ahmed Sani,
the Yerima Bakura and the Apostle of political sharia in Nigeria finally
got his way and the futile attempt by a small number of good, noble and
honourable Senators to amend the existing law on marriage and properly
define the age of a female that is eligible to marry was thwarted by the
pro-paedophilia, pro-child rape and pro-child marriage group within the
Senate. Sadly our distinguished Senators eventually bowed to the will
of Yerima and his friends and agreed to remain silent about the age that
young girls can get married in Nigeria. What this means is that girls
that are as young as 9 years old can continue to be lawfully bedded and
married in our country providing they are deemed as being ”physically
developed enough” to do so by their suitors, their prospective husbands
and their parents. That is the law and that is the sordid level that we
as a people and as a nation have degenerated to over the years.
I weep for Nigeria and, perhaps more appropiately, I weep for the
Nigerian girl child. I weep because it is obvious to me that the
Yerima’s of this world wish to turn our country into a giant Bangkok to
which millions of sexual deviants flock from all over the world to
”enjoy” our ”tourist attractions” and ”have a taste” of our young
and beloved children. Worst still they wish to use religion to defend
and justify it. Yet we have no choice but to live with this new reality
and to accept it as it is. After all, our representatives in the sacred
halls of the Senate were not sensitive enough or ”man enough” to
shoot down the whole thing, to stand firmly against the unholy agenda
and to say boldly and firmly that ”come what may” our children must be
protected from sexual deviants and reprobates.
And since the
Senate, in its infinate wisdom, has now bought into and openly endorsed
the “Paedophile Charter” which essentially makes it lawful and
constitutional for very young girls to get married and to have sex at a
very young age it is my firm view that we have now become a nation of
perverts and paedophiles. The Senate had a chance to clear the air and
amend the law but, out of nothing but sentiment and an inexplicable
eagerness to compromise with that which is clearly evil, they threw that
chance away and sacrificed our most sacred values to Yerima and his
gang. Worst still they did it with a smile on their faces. Every
Nigerian should bow his or her head in shame because instead of crushing
the head of the lustful beast that seeks to fornicate with our
children, to steal their virtues and to destroy their future what the
Senate did the other day was to compromise with and cater for the filthy
appetites and godless fantasies of a bunch of child molestors and
sexual predators. It is sordid. It is ungodly. It is evil. And it is
unforgiveable.
Surely we ought to be seeking to protect our
children and not seeking to bed them. Yet it appears that not everyone
shares our outrage and collective sense of shame. One Uche Ezechukwu
made the following contribution which went viral on the social media
networks and which I think speaks volumes. He wrote-
“Those
who are railing against ‘paedophile’ senators, like Yerima Bakura, must
be told that a muslim can’t go wrong while imitating the examples of the
Apostle of Allah himself and the founder of his religion, in the same
way a christian cannot be criticized for following the examples of Jesus
Christ. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) married Aisha at the age of six
and consummated the marriage when she was nine. So, why are we judging
muslims by our own standards?”
I am appauled by these words.
The truth is that I have never heard such a self-serving and specious
arguement in defence of the philosophies and beliefs of the Ayatollah of
Bakura, Senator Ahmed Sani, the practising paedophile who married and
bedded a 12 year old Egyptian girl, as this one. Ahmed Sani himself
could not have argued it better. Yet I think that it is an utter shame.
And this is more so because the individual that is putting the arguement
is supposedly a christian. The Old Testament of the Holy Bible
prescribes ”stoning” for adultry but that does not mean that christian
countries, or indeed secular states like Nigeria, should stone
adulterers.
Neither does it mean that we should preserve the
institution of slavery or crucify petty thieves simply because the Holy
Bible endorsed both practices in the Old Testament. We must accept the
fact that the interpretation of biblical and koranic provisions are
evolutionary and are ever changing. Jesus Himself said ”laws are made
for man and not man for laws”. The suggestion that paedophilia has any
place in any modern and decent society simply because it was once
practised in the distant past is not only a despicable arguement but it
also does not make any sense. After all cannibalism and child and human
sacrifice were once widely practised and were held as being perfectly
acceptable throughout the world as well but that does not mean that we
should practice any of those terrible vices today.
The young
man, Uche Ezechukwu, who appears to be defending child rape in the name
of islam, should either let someone lay with and ”marry” his own 6 or 9
year old daughter or he should seal his lips forever and stop trying to
defend the indefensible. His assertions, and I daresay those of Senator
Ahmed Sani and anyone that shares their primitive views, are not only
utterly immoral and reprehensible but they are also intellectually
dishonest. I say this because the truth is that there is NO muslim
country in the world that has adopted the “paedophile charter” where 6
or 9 year olds can marry and be bedded except for Saudi Arabia, Iran and
Yemen.
Every other muslim country in the world, including
Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, Jordan, Senegal, the
Sudan, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, United Arab Emirates,
Bangladesh, Qatar, Bahrain, Dagestan, Albania, Bosnia, Somalia, Algeria,
Libya, Mali, Azerbejhan,Niger, Turkestan, Chechnya and Syria have
specifically banned child marriage, paedophilia and child rape in their
various constitutions and laws and some have declared it ”repugnant”,
”unacceptable” and ”unislamic”. Are these people not muslims too? As
a matte if fact are they not better muslims than those that insist on
sleeping with or marrying underage girls in the name of islam?
Like christianity and judaism, islam is a noble, pure, honourable and
ancient faith that seeks to protect the weakest and most vulnerable in
society, including children. No-one should use the misinterpretation of
its provisions to try to justify or rationalise what is essentially
depraved, shameful, disgusting and barbaric behaviour and the most
sordid and filthy expression of sexual deviance and perversion. Even
animals do not marry or bed their own infants. The bitter truth is that
paedophiles have no place in any civilised society.
I am
constrained to say that in the light of their “yes” vote to child
marriage and their green light to paedophilia, every single member of
the Nigerian Senate that voted with Yerima on that day and that
supported his filthy agenda should bow their heads in utter shame and
they should be compelled to offer their own infant and under age
daughters to strangers for marriage. I repeat, they have turned us into a
nation of perverts and paedophiles and I say a pox on all their houses.
I reserve my commendations and respect only for those Senators that
opposed and voted against Yerima’s protestations and agenda and that
stood for that which was right even though they could not muster enough
votes to have their way. My word to this brave and righteous few is
simple and clear- keep the struggle alive and continue to resist the
evil that resides amongst us all. You are the only thing that stands
between our children and the practising paedophiles in our midst who
seek to ravage and bed them even before they have entered their teens.
