Emir of Kano and former CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who once said that those who think he's a problem, should wait for his children, has disclosed why he supported his daughter, Shaheeda who represented him at the BBOG movement’s third anniversary lecture for missing Chibok girls in Abuja last Friday, when he slapped a boy.

By her own account at the Transcorp-Hilton Hotel venue of the event, Shaheeda said that she just became the first female in northern Nigeria to represent an Emir at a formal event.

While she appeared to have some inkling about the criticism that was bound to trail the development, and her not so conventional or inadequate use of the veil, her father’s video message that introduced her as a rather strange child took some members of the audience by surprise.

“Let me tell you something about the young lady who is going to read my speech. When she was in Form 3, I remember an incident that is probably relevant for today. Her mother came to me and said: ‘You need to talk to your daughter’ and I asked her: ‘Why?’ “She said: ‘Your daughter slapped a boy in school’.

It is a bit strange so, I called Shaheeda and said: ‘Shaheeda, I heard that you slapped a boy in school. Why did you do it?’ “Then she said: ‘Dad, that boy has no respect for women’.

So, I asked her exactly what she meant by that. It turned out that one day, during prep in the afternoon, in full class, the boy had come to her, and put his finger to her forehead and pushed it backwards, and he was in the habit of doing it to all the girls in the class.
She had said nothing apparently and waited until the next day. She walked into the prep class late, the whole class was full, and she walked up to him, slapped him, and said: ‘That was for yesterday’.

So, long before we started talking about marriage and talking about whether when your husband slaps you, you should slap him back, Shaheeda had decided for herself that she would not take abuse, she would not take insult and she would not be disrespected by any man,” the Emir stated in the video message shortly before his daughter, Shaheeda read a prepared text.

http://www.lailasblog.com/2017/04/why-my-daughter-got-my-support-after.html

Equality shouldn't be idolized rather Respect should be encouraged amongst gender...

Wise ones will relate besides let me see whether the person below will make better sense

An eye for an eye will leave the whole community blind

oya clap for your self. Mtcheew.

dis man is a modernist,reformer and too liberal for dis post.....i hope he his not assassinated sha....he needs to take things slowly and thread carefully

Controversial Emir, then include her in the Guinness World book of records for being the first daughter to a northern king who represented her father in an event. Attention seeking Sarki kawai

O...my beloved Emir, too forward for an average Northerner!

This man embarrassed himself

THIS STORY GET KWASHIOKOR.

That's a good one. I'd celebrate my daughter too.

Your eminence thrown got it wrong here.. dialogue could be better, she can't matched what she is creating..

TheTrueSeeker:
Nonsense, so what was the moral lesson for his daughter's taking laws into her hands to assault her classmate? What about warning the erring young man not to do it again instead of rendering a slap and getting away with it.

why won't she slap him and get away with it. why would the boy feel he can do that and get away with it? the moral lesson in the story is "Don't take shit from nobody"

Emir of kano...u know i always support ur words but this one is no no

And so?

trash......the day i go slap 1 guy .....i saw hell on earth

The female children of the rich in the north can slap anybody, while the rich marry and keep female children of the poor in da oza room.

This people are so gonna hate Sanusi

hmm

Coming from a conservative northerner , I will slap but such is expected from the wealthy and powerful house but i hope the weak can achieve the same feat.

Lol.... She sure looks like it

eko wo lo ko wa? moral of this story?

story

if a boy slaps your daughter ,i hope you will support it

He is not sitting down and judging men and women for being who they were raised to be.

He is not leaving himself and his family at the mercy of societal rules.

Instead he is raising a generation that is not afraid to speak out and speak up. He is raising a generation of strong men and women that will not feel compelled by society. He's raising a generation that will take over, a generation that is sound and respectful.

Before you point hands, what are you doing for yourself and your generation?

Emir should abide by all the laws of Islam and stop all these modern way of thinking. He shouldn't serve two masters at the same time. Well, do I blame him? After all, one yoruba king goes to church every other Sunday holding bible in one hand and a fetish staff in the other hand.

This man will get killed o.
He doesn't want to act like the Romans while in Rome.
He's too advanced for this generation of northerners

She just told us what she would be doing when she gets married and at any provocation from her husband,slapping will be the best answer instead of taking things put for correction ....awon Omo Onibaje.... God go help you and your future husband if you are yet to marry ...vis- a-vis

God bless you, you get the message. Many seem to tend towards opting for dialogue when their children are beaten up in school, and its a lie o, many are only acting up, they wont even allow teachers discipline their wards not to talk of another pupil.

johnydon22:
why won't she slap him and get away with it. why would the boy feel he can do that and get away with it? the moral lesson in the story is "Don't take shit from nobody"

since she can slap. let CRAZECLOWN employ her as ADE'S mother! abeg I dey hungry who get indomie?

Tiri gbosa for Sanusi. He's always making sense back-to-back.
I don't even know who to choose among these two, whether Sanusi or Fayose.