If you tell a lie one hundred times, it does not
become a truth, all it becomes is a lie told a
hundred times. As Mahatma Gandhi said: An error
does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error
because nobody sees it.
Did you just wake up? Did you never before know
of these provisions in the constitution and
occurrences across Nigeria since forever?
No, not what you said Femi, nor what much of the
junk media propagated, the senate did not pass
any child marriage bill on July 16th.
Again, not the calumniation you proliferate, the
senate did not approve child marriage by failing
to delete Section 29 (4)(b), they only retained as
ingrained in the constitution, a married young
woman’s right to renounce her citizenship for
purposes which include but are not limited to
asylum seeking and foreign spouse related travel.
Again, no, Femi Fani-Kayode, there is no Muslim
law that permits sex with children.
Emphasis: Islam is vehemently against sex with
children and Islam does not permit pedophilia.
Education and Information: Sex with anyone who
is post-pubertal is not pedophilia. Pedophilia is
defined as: A person who has a sustained sexual
orientation toward pre-pubertal children.
Fact on culture: 78% of marriages in north Nigeria
are to women below the age of 18. (Most wise
people know that protests and threats never
change culture or religion.)
Fact on culture: 70% of marriages in Mali are to
women below the age of 18. (And Mali does not
have Nigeria’s peculiar VVF explosive crises)
Fact: The age of marriage in south Nigeria is
generally set at 16.
Fact: The age of marriage for girls in the Vatican is
set at 14 as per the code of canon law.
Facts: In the US, the age of marriage in New York
is 14, New Hampshire is 13, North Carolina is 14,
Rhode Island has no minimum age, Tennessee
has no minimum age, Washington state has no
minimum and Pennsylvania has no minimum age.
Facts: Minimum age of marriage in Spain is 14
(2013 now 16), Greece 16, Albania, 16, Austria 16,
Denmark 15, Georgia 15, Lithuania 15, Poland, 16,
Romania 16, England and Wales 16, Sweden 15,
Canada 15, Slovenia 15, Ireland and Iceland –
none, Serbia 16, Slovenia 15.
Fact: USA refused to sign the UN declaration of
the rights of a child.
Fact: Old age also is a great risk of fistula; and the
total prevalence of fistulae is 188 per 100,000
women aged 15 to 49 years in South Saharan
Africa. Pierre Marie Tebeu et al, Int Urogynecol J.
2012
Fact: Seven primary risk factors for obstetrical
fistula commonly reported include the place of
birth and presence of a skilled birth attendant,
the duration of labor and the use of a partograph,
the lack of prenatal care, early marriage and
young age at delivery, older age, lack of family
planning, and a number of other poorly defined
additional factors… Pierre Marie Tebeu et al, Int
Urogynecol J. 2012
Fact: US has 500,000 teen pregnancies per year
and 4000 girls get pregnant at age 12 and no age-
related fistulae.
Nota bene: Human beings are not tinned tomato
with ‘best before’ or ‘expiration date,’ and as
hence, 18 can in no logical or physiological way,
be the magical date that a child becomes an adult.
Nota bene: 18 is not a date enforced under the
child rights UN act. It is only a recommended
date; to maintain signatory to the act, a state can
adopt an age of choice as its age of majority,
above or below 18.
Nota bene: Biologically, medically and culturally,
adulthood is defined as the attainment of sexual
and social maturity, and is variable inter and
intra-specie. A 13 year post pubertal man may not
yet be intellectually mature just as a 52 year old
man may not be deemed mature if he still acts
intellectually and socially pediatric.
Popular consensus of the blesseds: Mary was 12
when she was betrothed to 90 year old Joseph,
and God gave her Jesus when she was ~12-16.
Medical facts:
Teen pregnancy does not cause vesico or recto-
vaginal fistula, lack of nearby quality obstetric
care does.
Teen pregnancy reduces the risk/rate of breast
cancer by 50%. Repeat, 50%!
Between teens and thirties, fertility rate drops by
as much as 40%!
The body copes better and recovers more
perfectly after teen birth, compared to old birth.
Social facts:
There are 2 teen pregnancies in south Nigeria for
every 8 in the north.
#WomanNotCommodity
Aristo’s are men who line up with their cars at
Moremi and other campus halls to predate on
and rump peoples teen and older daughters.
#WomanNotCommodity
All the thousands of teens and twenty year old
girls that patrol the streets all over Nigeria, risking
and selling their bodies to men, are people’s
daughters; repeat, they are people’s daughters,
and are the greatest threat to womanhood in
Nigeria at present.
#WomanNotCommodity
81% of Nigerian women suffer from domestic
violence, including wife murdering which is very
prevalent and almost exclusive to southern parts
of Nigeria.
The right to life: Abortion crises in Nigeria is a
great threat to our women as well as murder of
babies. This is a clear cause for address.
In conclusion.
There is no problem with Nigeria having this
conversation in a mature, respectable productive
format, on our women, their rights including age,
opportunity, marriage and domestic violence
related. But there is absolutely no reason for
these childish rants and hopeless cheap-publicity
seeking campaigns.
Nigeria is just–thank God–finally putting a lid on
Boko Haram ethno-tensive risky violence. We are
dealing with the second worst high sea piracy in
the world, with the worst government in the
world. Nigeria is the worst place to be born. If
anything, married males should also be included
in the provision and granted the rights of
renunciation. And perhaps also, our purer teens
should be allowed to vote, maybe this will save us
from the stupid choices our adults vote into
power. No law was broken in the events of the
fateful senate meeting of July 16, neither law of
God, nor law of man was violated. Do you wish a
law to be violated? Do you wish senators to vote
against the desires of their constituents who
elected them to office? Why do Nigerians love and
promote lawlessness? Due process was followed
that fateful day. Why do we not first go after the
millions of actual legal violations in the
government and community that are clear and
present government terror, than continue
peddling this preposterous, gelastic, harebrained
misinformation and misconstruction of events of
the proceedings, with only aim, to attack 80% of
northern marriages and in effect incite ethnic
distrust? What a sorry nation with the most
misplaced revolutions in history. They say lawyers
are liars. I hardly believe. And so also, I refuse to
believe the caution that actresses should always
be suspected of being in performance.
I am not sure the world started in Nigeria, so why
must the apocalypse begin from Nigeria? I rest
my case on this ludicrous distraction and hereby
return to the issues of 5>27 and 16>19, child and
teenage numbers, surpassing adult numbersh

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