ibnjarir: Job well done Mr Yarima!

eGuerrilla:

Like @eldoradoxx who considers those asking uncomfortable questions detractors of "God's law", I see you are also immutable to reason.

I was going to respond to your earlier comment, but have chosen not to in view of your million likes for a misplaced sense of reasoning?

Chinom: I have never paid attention to this issue and i honestly don't consider it important. It's very far from my bed. I'm more concerned about fighting Corruption and having constant electricity-24/7 in Nigeria. Child marriage is solely a problem of the Northerners and the parents that give a 12 tear old out for marriage. POVERTY is the root of this "problem".
Only very poor parents give their child out for marriage. But one question still bothers me - How come, that nature or God has made it possible for a 13yr old to get pregnant and bear children ?.

Note: In most villages in Southern Nigeria,underage girls still get married.

stanech:

Religion is a sensitive issue in Nigeria. I agree totally with what he said.

We must learn to respect the right of others while trying to protect our own right. Mind u we all reason differently.

This issue of underage marriage has been overblown because it did not start today


Let's fight bad governance if we have a better society no one will give his child out to yerima trust me....

Child rights legislation in Nigeria
The provisions of the Act supersede all other legislation that has a bearing on the rights of the child. Having been
enacted at the national level, the states are expected to formally adopt and adapt the Act for domestication as
state laws: Issues of child rights protection are on the residual list of the Nigerian Constitution, giving states
exclusive responsibility and jurisdiction to make laws relevant to their specific situations. State laws inimical
to the rights of the child are also to be amended or annulled as may be required, to conform to the Act and to the CRC.

Vegasailin: I love all the comments that i have read here.First of all,Let us leave religion out of this.A six yrs old girl knows nothing about herself,she cant even tell what the future looks like,she still plays with sand with her mates and all she wanted is parental love at that age.Please Some idiots said they do it in USA..let me ask you are we americans or are we colonised by them and must you copy the bad side of a country? ...i think this is just violation of fundamental human rights of the young girls because when they grow up,you have given them out against their consent.Yerima is a bastard,i Think without Bachelors degree,No one shd be allowed to contest to the Senate.We are having security challenges,Unemployment and alot of problems,You now have the impetus to bring out this irritating issue.I have been to the most,most cases about women in the north are Cancer of the Vagina and Vagina Tear Cos they have sex at tender age.........Yerima Is Just An Animal:::::::::

Chillisauce: One word....


Animal!

eGuerrilla:

And how is this solely a problem for Northerners when it is the welfare of children that is under scrutiny here?

Are the these Northern children no longer Nigerians?

Have you ever taken time to reflect on the attendant costs of 11 million Almajari children - twice population of Sierra Leone? Do you see the connection between all these issues, or are you one of those who touts the argument of "God's laws"?

One_Naira: The Yerima dude is nothing but a disgusting pig. he's nothing but a man using his religion to hide his pedophilic believes. Any grown man that thinks it's okay to marry or mate with an underage child needs his head examined. Noone stole your childhood while growing up, now that you of age you think it's alright to steal an another person's childhood. SMH. I can't even believe some are defending this disgusting soon to be law.
You pedophiles should go seek professional, psychological and spiritual help. Disgusting pigs

eGuerrilla:

Listen, with all due respect, your arguments are pedestrian.
Since you comport yourself under the banner of "God's Law", please have the good grace to vacate the field for those of us capable on fighting more than one cause at the same time. It is really that simple!



Source:

http://www.unicef.org/nigeria/Child_rights_legislation_in_Nigeria.pdf

stanech:

Sir. We are quit on the same page here
But I still think that the issue of corruption and poverty in the land is the biggest problem and Nigerians are doing nothing about it.

Let us fight poverty first aLl other things will fall into place


The North has always been like that and no matter how much we type and curse it aint gonna change.

Rather let's use development to kick out these stupid laws when people live a normal average not too stressful life they tend to do things in a civilized way. Look @ Saudi a muslim nation but they don't practice child marriage don't u think its because they have a better society?

More than 5,000 child brides in Saudi Arabia

Dubai: More than 5,000 girls below the age of 14 are married off in Saudi Arabia, according to media reports.
There have been 5,622 marriages where the bride is under the age of 14 in Saudi Arabia, said Ali Abdul Rahman Al Roumi, a social services academic at Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University, adding that specifying a legal age would not solve the problem, and may lead to “even bigger problems”.

A number of families from “rural areas” have been marrying their daughters off to older, rich men, according to the Saudi owned Al Hayat newspaper.

“We must solve this, by at least looking at the difference in age in cases where the bride is young, in which case it can be deceptive” he said. He did not specify what period of time that figure represents.

Will Saudi Arabia end child marriage?

By Suad Abu-Dayyeh, Special to CNN

Editor’s note: Suad Abu-Dayyeh is the Middle East and North Africa consultant for Equality Now, an advocacy group for the human rights of women and girls around the world. The views expressed are her own.

Three years ago, 12-year-old Fatima was "sold" into marriage to a man more than four times her age. Her father, unemployed and addicted to drugs, sold her into wedlock for about $10,500, money that he then used to buy himself a car. You might be asking yourself how this possible. The answer – because there is no minimum age of marriage law in Saudi Arabia.

Why is no one protecting Saudi Arabia's child brides?

The support of the Saudi monarchy and its apologists in the west means the barbaric practice of child marriage is unchallenged


The Saudi monarchy has a long history of marrying very young girls.' Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images

Atgaa, 10, and her sister Reemya, 8, are about to be married to men in their 60s. Atgaa will be her husband's fourth wife. Their wedding celebrations are scheduled for this week and will take place in the town of Fayaadah Abban in Qasim, Saudi Arabia.

The girls are getting married because their financially struggling father needs the money that their dowries will provide: young girls of this age can fetch as much as $40,000 each.

Many readers might be shocked at this news. How can it be legal? The answer is that Saudi Arabia has no minimum age for marriage, and it is perfectly legal to marry even an hour-old child.

Three Saudi ministries share the blame for allowing and facilitating child marriages. The health ministry is tasked with conducting genetic tests for couples considering marriage. Saudi law requires potential brides and grooms to provide certificates of genetic testing before marriages can officially proceed.

The justice ministry regulates the marriage process and issues licences. And the interior ministry registers families and documents the relationships between family members. It is also the most powerful government agency; it has authority over all other ministries and can direct their activities at will.

As with many pernicious practices, child marriage would not exist without tacit support and approval from the country's leadership. Far from condemning child marriage, the Saudi monarchy itself has a long history of marrying very young girls.

Joel Brinkley: Saudi Arabia takes tentative steps to end child marriage
May 28, 2013|American Voices | Tribune Media Services

A senior official in the Saudi Arabian Justice Ministry boldly declared that the government is finally going to attack a significant national problem: child marriage.

It's not uncommon to hear about girls 12 years old or younger being forced to marry men in their 70s or 80s. For many years now, news stories about this problem have been tarnishing the Saudi government's image.

babylolaroy:
y u cum dey vex on top notin...yu rnt even talkin to someone in particular so save ur breath...yerima cant hear yu nd no one can...jus kip ur own dota safe no one will marry ha...gaskiya#

eGuerrilla:

I am going to return to explain why this important issue should be relegated to the background, simply because we are fighting to contain corruption in other areas.

For now, consider the following article.



Source: http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/more-than-5-000-child-brides-in-saudi-arabia-1.1101605

stanech:

If saudi arabia hv 20percent of the problem Niigeria has then child marriage would not hv been an issue. They hv a system that works. A better standard of living. Security. These are nigeria biggest prob not marriage not gay laws.
Y do we keep diciving ourselves.
Kidnaping rape manslaughter bokoharam thieving politicians armedrobbery strike electricty goodhealth. Those. Are enof reasons to call our senators back home not some stupid child marriage which has been existing from genesis. It is d least of our problem

ono: @stanech,
Face up all those links posted by eGuerilla and stop wasting precious time! Defend your evil, child molesting, clueless senator Yerima. Even Saudi Arabia is moving away from the evil - see link up there. Yet, your illiterate and dull senator wants to satisfy his carnal, paedophilic desires using the hallowed chambers of the Nigerian senate? He will not get away with this one. And he will end up behind bars!!

caprini: How can a man want to have sex with a child that watches ,TELE TUBBIES,BARNIE ,CEE BIE BIES,DORA THE EXPLORER with the concentration of an adult following the events in syria on Aljazeera?If he is not totally messed up in the membrane.A child that merely sitting her beside a boy in school,protests and cries as if her rights have been taken from her for being a girl.Is it that Yerima and co. dont have daughters,grand daughters and nieces that they adore their innocence and cuteness and thank God for these wonderful gift called the girl child?
Let us all join hands and say no to this barbaric act.k

babylolaroy:
forget dah wan i beg...u suppose don geh thumbs up buh i disconcur wth ur last point...gals dey geh tear tear cos of tender age intimacy...shey na marriage dey cause am?..no be sex dey cause tear..dey don talk say sex go wait. na determinatn na..mr yerima go wait make she knack real puberty
aftarall teenagers av sex daily w/o marriage....dem dey geh tear?

harthonder: I criosly wonder y everyone has been saying all
sorts of negative things on d child marriage
ruling,count in ur own neighbourhood how many
15 year old and below that are virgins,handful.
How many secondary schl girls are being disvirgnd
on valentine days in school toilets and bushes,how many inocent and underage housemaids are being
sexually abused in the houses of their
employees,even secondary school teachers abuse
their wards. Go to our female boarding schools and
see the no of underage girls engaging in illicit
practices,so many lesbians around. I don't think marrying a girl off at a tender age can stop her
from going to school or getting proper education,it
will only keep her away from engaging in acts that
are harmful to her and the entire community. I can
categorically say today that most club girls in
nigeria are teenagers,well below 18yrs of age,and they engage in things that even a 30yr old dare
not try. So what are we saying here.the no of ppl
that engage mostly in abortion fall below
18yrs,senators,politicians and rich men,senseless
ones though patrol our undergraduate hostels
looking for girls to have a one night stand with and once they give them a token amount,the gals
hop in their parked flashy cars and some even
have sex with them in their cars. If all these can be
happening,I see no reason why a 12 or 13 year old
girl cannot get married o,its for her own good
afterall.

find.it.ng:


You are definately an idiot..buried in eternal folly...If she couldn't take a irrational decision on issues at a stage of life.....marrying her off for the rest of life is the answer?.....she errors up a stage thus u create a ripple effect of errors true her life.....God, I wish i could have them joystick ur under 18 daughter from every angle consistently under the tag marriage and in ur presence......that'll definately jumpsatrt that dead brain of urs.....nuisance..

kolado: I was watching Channel tv yesterday when i saw a good many Nigerians carrying placards with bold inscriptions of these likes 'Say No To Child Bride' and 'Child Not Bride' e.t.c. I waited with sick feeling of suspense to get the gist of the news before i knew it i saw a humanright activist being interviewed but she only just said they won't support the amendment bill of underage marriage in Nigeria. I understand our grievances that we are trying to snuff out the legalization of underage marriage though we don't seem to know that the grave issue at state is next to nothing because constitutionally,it's nothing to do with underage marriage under the 1999 constitution as amended. It's pertinent at this crucial juncture to apprise able-minded Nigerians of the fact that Section 29(4)(b)CFRN 1999 as amended which provides thus:Any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age. This section is under chapter 3 of the CFRN 1999 as amended which borders on CITIZENSHIP. Thus,Section 29(1) provides thus:Any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation. How ever does this liken to underage marriage? Sec 29(4)(a)provides that for the purposes of subsection(1)of this section (a)"full age"means the age of eighteen years and above. Thus,the combined reading of Section 29(1) and 29 (4)(a)and(b) mean that once you're a citizen of Nigeria of full age(18 years and above),either male or female who wishes to renounce his Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for renunciation. Now the controversial section 29(4)(b)means that once any woman(in simple term girl) is married shall be deemed to be of full age. She will automatically be deemed to be 18yrs and above eventhough she's 13yrs old by virtue of marriage to renounce her nigeria citizenship. In as much as she has got married to a man eventhough she's not of full age she would be deemed to be so in order to renounce her nigerian citizenship by virtue of Section 29(4)(b)1999 CFRN as amended.In conclusion,it's shameful that our senators don't have sound interpretation of statute. If the situation had been so,underage marriage as we have thought,lawyers wouldn't have rested on their oars rather snuff out such barbaric law.I don't like whipping up tribal sentiments at its sadistic worst. I love you al!