Under-age marriage, another example of general idiocy amongst Nigerians and online media.

In the beginning, constitution review. The senate meets to vote on some of the provisions of the constitution review committee. So it turns out the review committee flagged the wordings of a section of the constitution. This section, outlined provisions for renunciation of Nigerian citizenship. I quote...

section 1 S29(1) 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

S29 (4): “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’

The motion was that the provision (b) of the act be removed based on grounds of it being discriminatory as it specifically mentions the word woman.

Now, for those of us who can read and have a 3 digit IQ, in what way does the provision (b) legalize child marriages? In what way does removing this provision make child marriages illegal? Pls tell me because I can not see the logic!

The logic by which useless online media outlets (spearheaded by the Jonathanian propagandist machine, ironnically named "Hope for Nigeria" continue to assault and molest senators who voted against its removal.

The logic by which they continue to label northern senators as child molesters.

The logic by which they continue to divert public attention from the important things like the federal government inspired rivers state crisis, the ASUU and looming Nlc strikes and the billion stil being looted daily from federal purses. Blame the nations woes and anybody but the president.

The stupidity and complete ignorance of the emergency activists campaigning and petitioning under the ‪#‎childnotbride‬ hashtag, and flooding the internet with photo-shopped images of mosques beside pregnant teens is further revealed when you consider that the Nigerian constituion, as reviewed in 2003 has already curtailed their feers.

The Child Right Act, I quote.

“No person under the age of 18 years is capable of contracting a valid marriage, and accordingly, any marriage so contracted is null and void and of no effect whatsoever”.

22. 1. “No parent, guardian or any other person shall betroth a child to any person”

2. A betrothal in contravection of subsection (1) of this section is null and void."

Infact, the act goes further to prescribe punishment to violators.

"23. A person (a) who marries a child; or

(b) to whom a child is betrothed ; or

(c) who promotes the marriage of a child; or

(d) who betroths a child commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of N,500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira) or imprisonment for a term of five years or to both such fine and imprisonment."

However, I have been made to understand that the child right act does not automatically apply across the country and must be adopted in each state by their respective house of representatives. Even then, this act cannot be fully implemented as the Nigerian constitution, as contained in section 61, is restricted from overriding Sharia or Customary law.

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The second part of this piece, the assault on Yerima.

It has become standard practice amongst the pro jonathan media houses to quote men of Northern origin out of context in their mission to cause division amongst tribal and religion lines in preparation for their Messiahs re election in 2015 so i was not surprised when I saw quotes of Yerima saying that he can give his daughter out for marriage at age 6.

Now, there is no falsehood in that quote. He actually said that, but the question must be asked, is that all he said? A rational mind would ask himself, "In what context was this statement made?" During the interview, Yerima went further to clarify that Nigerian culture allows parents to betroth children at birth and that such marriages would not be consummated until the girl in question comes of age and gives her consent. He made sure to point out that Islamic law does not permit a husband to rape his wife.

Now most of us have a general dislike for Yerima since he wed a 13 year old girl a couple of years ago. However, should we let that cloud our common sense? as Yerima himself pointed out in his interview, marriage is not all about sex. Historically in virtually all cultures of the world, including the US, UK, India, China and Africa, child marriage at birth was standary practice. Marriages were forged for the purpose of unity and societal cohesion. In fact, in ancient rome, the eldest male member of a family had the right to give out any member of his family in marriage to who ever he pleases. In other words, if a woman were to be widowed, her eldest son gets to pick her next husband!

It must be said that the concept of gender equality is one of the stupid cultural anomalies that the west is today trying to force on the rest of the world. I say stupid because even the very thought of it is infact stupid. There can never be gender equality, what the world needs is GENDER JUSTICE!

it must be pointed out that the art of giving women out for marriage is a cultural issue. Even Mary the mother of Jesus was 14 when she was married to Joseph and less than 15 years of age when she gave birth to Jesus!

Any argument that women should not be given out for marriage would be an attack against a peoples culture and such an individual would be a Tribalist. Tribalist here meaning the tribal equivalent of a Racist.

#ChildNotBride, shame on you all.

- @rebelng

coool bro good to know that somebodi out there is also watchin bro, media nd word of mouth pass wrong info............ sombodi shld plz tell stella damascus dt we nid a part 2