Normal is boring. Humans don't enjoy things that are just normal. That's why today in Nigeria, we see some of our law-makers fighting to legalise under-age marriage. There was a time when promiscuity and pre-marital se..x was heavily frowned upon. It later became normal and then guess what? People started becoming gay. Yes, homose..xuality has been a part of humanity for ages, but, they started coming out public. It wasn't a thing to be hidden anymore. They started clamouring for rights, they got it. In some countries, marriage has even become legal.

Now, I think that being gay is now normal, and like I earlier stated, normal is boring. Thus, perverted people have moved over to child molestation. Yes, it has been around for a long time, but no one can deny that there has been a rise in the number of cases reported in recent years. This has now degenerated to a level where our law-makers are now seeking to legalise it by exploiting a clause in our constitution that is reserved for the renunciation of citizenship (read Chapter III, Section 29). That chapter talks only about citizenship and Section 29 talks only about renunciation of citizenship. Sub-section (1) of section 29 states that "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". Sub-section (4) of that same section goes further to define full age by stating that "For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.
(a) "full age" means the age of eighteen years and
above;
(b) any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of
full age."

Some honourable persons have now exploited this loop hole in our constitution and can now use it to define a 12 year old girl child as a full aged woman when the age of consent according to our constitution is 16. Thus, a married girl of 13 can now be considered a woman while an un-married girl of 16 is still considered a child.

Well, it isn't a surprise. Afterall, this is Nigeria. A country where 16 is bigger than 19, 5 than 27, a few bigger than 200 million.

Who knows what will come next after under-age marriage has become normal? We can only speculate about that.




GOD BLESS NIGERIA...