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    TOP CELEBRITIES UP IN ARMS AGAINST YERIMA

    Ruth Osime

    Stella Damasus

    Pastor Tunde Bakare
    Zainab Maina
    Femi Fani-Kayode

    David Mark

    Few weeks ago, the Nigerian Senate attempted to amend Section 29(a) of the constitution, which states that a married underage girl is deemed to be "an adult".
    However, former Zamfara State governor, who attracted controversy with the introduction of Sharia Law in the state then, Senator Ahmed Sanni Yerima of Zamfara opposed the amendment.

     He claimed that the amendment is against Islamic Law and that any lady that is married should be considered as a woman regardless of the age.
     Following the insistence of Yerima, Mark agreed to revisit the issue, and said "once more, because of the serious nature of the laws we make, and because we want our actions to stand the test of time, we will revisit the issue raised by Yerima".
    This started a controversy among the public and activists as well as critics hit back at the pedophiles.

    Former Aviation minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode in an article published on August 4, 2013 in the Thisday Newspaper titled "A word for Yerima and the pedophiles" clearly expressed his disapproval of the issue. He pointed out that two female senators refused to show up during the sitting, adding that "how does one explain the fact that two female senators; Aisha Jummai Alhassan from Taraba State and Zainab Kure from Niger State both of whom I gather have daughters, actually abstained when that historical vote took place."
    Senate President, David Mark also admitted that the entire senate had succumbed to Yerima's "blackmail" on the issue of the right of the child bride, while his Deputy; Senator Ike Ekweremadu accepted the fact that the matter needed to be revisited in view of the outrage expressed by the majority of the Nigerian people.
     In the concluding part of Femi's article, he mentioned that in Yerima's own Northern region, not less than 93% of the girls do not complete secondary school education and 70 % of women between ages 20 and 29 cannot read or write. “Worst still, the region has the largest percentage and number of Vesico Vagina Fistula (VVF) cases in the entire world according to our Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Zainab Maina, Nigeria has 800,000 cases of VVF today and we are adding 20,000 cases each year,” he said.

    On her part, a popular Nollywood actress, Stella Damasus Aboderin, released a video few weeks ago on Youtube expressing how disappointed she was on the issue. She went on to say, “no one should make this an Islamic issue, they should not take us all for fools. Now, I have absolutely nothing against Islam, in fact I am a strong believer that every Nigerian has the liberty to practice whatever religion they like freely, but this shameless senators should not make Nigeria a Sharia state. Nigeria is not an Islamic country; do not impose the evil desires of your hearts on an entire nation using religion as a cover. There are no distinctions between child marriage and child slavery. If anything, child marriage is worse, how can you subject a 13 year old child to that kind of life, a child who is yet to figure her bearing in life, a child with hopes and dreams, a child that has a right to freedom, a right to education, has Nigeria suddenly run out of mature girls, who are fully developed and ripe enough for marriage? That our shameless set of senators will actually result to craddle snatching? Are there no women in the senate?” The man of God in charge of Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos 

    Pastor Tunde Bakare recently delivered a powerful and explosive sermon titled; "Nigeria is suffering from the leadership of PINPS" (Pedophiles in Power). The issue of child marriage has divided our country more than any other issue before it in our entire history."  
    Editor of Thisday Style, Ruth Osime poured out her mind in an article. She described the situation as a "belly churning madness." She said, "there is no such thing as over-flogging the matter, it is a dastardly act and VVF is a disease child bride suffers as a result of the sexual abuse from their husband rather than playing with "barbie dolls.”


    Femi Omotesho, a columnist and writer also wrote a piece about the issue and titled it "Beasts of my nation." She said; "While my so called National Leaders were in their wacky imaginations, thinking about how the female gender could be more repressed and debased, other countries from the Middle East and North Africa are exposing their young females to activities that will encourage innovation and promote the spread of new technologies to give women and girls the support that they need to become leaders in this field."  


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