Nigeria shame

The world is full of evil not because of those who do evil, but because of those who sit and let happen (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr)

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igeria sank to a new low when "distinguished senator" Sani Yerima of the Federal Republic of Nigeria bought a 13 year old girl from Egypt for $10,000 as a sex property (disguised as marriage). This affair cannot be called marriage because both Egyptian, Nigeria laws and the Child Rights Act 2003 makes it illegal to marry a girl under 18. The real issues here are pedophilia (mental disorder), child slavery (buying a human being for sexual property), child abuse, child rape and human trafficking (criminal offences).

The Nigeria senate through its spokesman, one senator Eze, said that Yerima's criminally insane activity was his "private affair". Upon subsequent public outcry and pressures from women advocacy groups and the Human Rights Commission, the senate referred the matter to its ethics committee just to bury it instead of referring it to the police for arrest, criminal investigations and prosecution.

The culture of arrogance, lawlessness and impunity by the political/power class must stop. Yerima has subsequently explained through BBC interview that he is bound only by Islamic laws, forget that he swore to uphold the constitution of Nigeria as the supreme law of the land and the so-called marriage took place in the Nigerian capital Abuja. According to Yerima, he was merely following his Prophet in Islam and anyone criticizing Yerima's pedophilia and criminality was attacking Islam. Yerima and his kind who hide under religion to commit heinous crimes and atrocities should know that some of us are not intimidated by foreign religions (Islam or Christianity) and are sick and tired of terrorism (e.g. Jos mayhem), crimes and child abuse, child rape and child trafficking. No one can hide under "religion" in the 21st century especially serial pedophiles and criminally insane who have hijacked Nigeria as the political/power overlords.

However, this issue and the assertions by Yerima raised a number of questions:

• Why did the Nigerian senate not suspend Yerima for rubbishing the senate, Nigerian constitution, penal laws and international laws, or breaking his oath of office by saying that he is only bound by Islamic laws?

• Why did the Nigeria senate not expel Yerima for disgracing and portraying senators as lawbreakers and for engaging in conduct unbecoming of a senator? Didn't the senate president rightly tell new ministers who were senators that their individual performance would reflect on the senate and senators? I assume the senators see nothing wrong with buying babies as sex toys or slaves disguised as "marriage" or lawbreaking as most Nigerian public office holders do it and see themselves as above the law with impunity.

• Is it true that the Prophet also "married" baby bride as claimed by Yerima? If not:

• Why haven't those Nigerian Islamic jihadists/extremists who accused a Christian fashion reporter of "blaspheming' the Prophet for saying that the Prophet would have liked the beautiful women and then massacred innocent Nigerians Christians the during the cancelled Miss World Pageant 2002 done the same to Yerima and innocent Nigerian Muslims? Why the silence, double standards and hypocrisy.

The federal government is also an accomplice with Yerima for its silence and inaction. The government should have made it clear that child abuse and child "marriage' is totally unaccepted by arresting and charging him to court to send a strong message. What "evidence" does the government need? Do they not have the Immigration Landing papers, passports and Abuja mosque imam and eye witnesses including senators who attended the "marriage" ceremony? Do they not have Yerima's own admission that he is following only Islamic laws and the Prophet not Nigerian laws? Do they not have evidence of Yerima's earlier "marriage" to another 15year old whom he disposed like used toilet paper to "marry" this younger 13 year old? Why did the government not cancel Yerima's official passport to show its disapproval of his pedophilia and disregard for Nigerian laws? Any government really serious about fighting certain evils in Nigeria and improving Nigeria's horrific international image would have taken serious actions against Yerima and other public office holders breaking the laws with impunity.

Why did the ministry of health not weigh in on this matter? Does it not know the health consequences of dirty old men's pedophilia or so-called "marriage" to babies? Maybe its solution to this health problem is to build more specialized VVF "hospitals" (actually mortuaries) for women in northern Nigeria? As a former director in a northern Nigeria hospital, I vividly remember the dehumanized images and my revulsion when these dirty old men abandoned these baby brides as an "embarrassment" after they become incontinent from VVF. The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) should be more preoccupied with real health problems facing the masses particularly women and children instead of perpetuating primitive unfair power strange hold over other health professions.

Why hasn't Dora the minister of "rebranding" who is also a woman publicly condemn Yerima for denting Nigeria's international image and sabotaging the "rebranding" nonsense? One cannot "rebrand" Nigeria as long as arrogant corrupt psychiatric public office holders like Yerima are unleashing their evil animalistic criminality with impunity while the rest of the world watches with disbelief and horror. As I say nowadays, please spare me any further Nigerian rubbish and horrors.

Yerima, the apostle of Shari as former governor in Zamfara, who had a man's hand cut off for stealing cow, should have his penis cut off for far more heinous crimes- child rape, child abuse, pedophilia and sexual slavery of a minor and human trafficking.

I salute all who are doing something to end the ill-treatment, endangerment, dehumanization and buying of our women and girls as sexual objects and property disguised as "marriage" or religion/culture. Slavery, pedophilia, child abuse, child rape and human trafficking are evil and crimes regardless. If Nigeria is really serious about fighting evil and crimes then it should start protecting women and babies. Action please!

Peace to all.