Let me begin by saying the “child” marriage
debate can only make people famous, it can
only be used to stay famous, it can only revive
careers of actresses who are smart enough to
hurriedly make a youtube video when the
heat is on, but it will continue to happen and
not even the removal of the controversial
supportive clauses or the inclusion of a new
prohibiting one will stop it. This is the fact;
plain simple, in one paragraph.
I have watched the drama playing out and
how Stella Damasus has tried so hard to be
the lead actor. From a youtube video with
costumes and the rants of a little girl to an
Aljazeera performance where she frowns
while other guests speak, I have observed the
Stella lady and I think she needs the following
advice:
Firstly, arrogance, insults and name calling
does not make you right. You are right when
you are right you are wrong when you are
wrong. For example you referred to the
Islamic position on marriage age as
“deafening, old and archaic”. Earlier in an
article of yours you praised the Islamic mood
of worship and the simplicity of it as well as
narrated a story of how a wealthy Muslim
came down from his car to join a gate man in
his estate in prayer in your presence….well,
the provision of Islam which made this
possible is also old and we thank God it is not
archaic in the sense of being abandoned for
being old. And the same way you hate our
provision for marriage at any age, the pagan
Arabs hated the prayers you so praised.
Still on mistaking arrogance and bad
behaviour for correctness, I also heard you
imply that Muslims “poach” and Christians
don’t. According to your claim, the Nigerian
law recognizes Islam but also recognizes
Christianity but Christians don’t “poach” by
asking that the position of the Christian
religion be part of Nigerian law. Again you are
not right because you said it with much
emphasis and a frowned face. This is Nigeria
in which it’s Government has a public Holiday
two times a week because Christians, with all
due respect, could not agree on which day is
Sabbath; Saturday or Sunday. This is Nigeria in
which the whole period around Christmas is
public holiday and you don’t “poach”? Of
course you don’t, but we do just because we
are saying don’t forbid US from marrying
OURSELVES when WE want to and because we
say the fact that you compromise your rights
to follow your Bible to the Nigerian
constitution does not mean we must do the
same, more so when the constitution does
not require that of us. We poach, we are
poachers, don’t mind us!
Secondly, I advise that you, Stella, know your
facts especially if you intend saying them on
international television. The Child Right Act is
the result of a Convention which can only be
applied if it goes in line with the Constitution,
so if the constitution suggested that a
woman of 17 can get married and you say
the Child Right Act prohibits such, then you
are saying the Child Right Act is
unconstitutiona l and should be thrown
away. This is a classic case of not knowing
what you are talking about and hence
speaking against what you intend to speak
for. Now you know why Abraham Lincoln said
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool
than to speak out and remove all doubt"
Another blunder you committed because you
thought exclamations can cover for points is
that you claimed to have discovered hospitals
where women with VVF die off. Stella, Stella,
VVF is not even lethal, it does not kill. This is as
ridiculous as saying you have discovered
hospitals where people with Eczema are left
to die. Studies, which you will not read
because you are too busy taking pictures and
twitting, have shown that of 100,000 births
0.4% have the challenge of VVF which is
mainly a result of prolong child labour and
rape. Let me show you what Dr. John
Spurlock, MD Medical Director and Founder of
the Continence Management Institute of the
Lehigh Valley and 9 other specialists wrote
about the cause of VVF and I sure this will be
the first time you are reading of a disease you
always speak about:
“Risk factors that predispose to VVFs include
prior pelvic or vaginal surgery, previous PID,
ischemia, diabetes, arteriosclerosi s,
carcinoma, endometriosis, anatomic
distortion by uterine myomas, and infection,
particularly postoperative cuff abscess”
You see my dear, one does not have to be
super intelligent to speak if only he will be
intelligent enough to know he has to speak
only of what he knows.
My third and final advice for Stella Damasus is
that it is important to follow the argument of
the other side if you must engage in a debate.
No one standing with Yerima is saying
Nigeria is an Islamic state, no one is saying
there should be sexual exploitation of
children rather that which has been said is
that Nigeria being a multi religious state as
you claim has said it will not disturb your
practice of your religion; marriage is part of
religion as far as Muslims and Islam is
concerned; as a matter of fact the Prophet of
Islam says it is HALF of religion for the
Muslims, Nigeria has said it won’t disturb, let
it not disturb. It has also been said that in
Islam and for Muslims when you marry is not
necessarily when you have sex so marriage is
anytime, sex is during maturity so where is
the exploitation? If you are concerned about
how we ensure this then take a breathe and
ask us we will answer you.
We do hope to see women like Stella who will
get all angry and vocal over the fact that
women are in the market places in Nigeria
selling pepper under the scourging sun with
one baby on her back and two others
running around at the risk of being run down
by a car. We do hope to see women who will
address the problem of prostitution which
leaves a young girl sleeping with 10 men a
night, 60-70 a week, 280 men every month
and 3,360 men a year at the risk of STDs,
losing her womb, permanent frigidity, HIV,
and rape….but then a non-fatal disease which
only occurs in less than 0.4% of child delivery
and is curable is more of an issue. What an
Olympic sport in hypocrisy
Eseoghene Al-Faruq Ohwojeheri
@faruqish
6/09/13

Sumone shd send dis to stella's email. Thumbs up @op

Nice piece bt poster you'R smh wrong by comparin lethal VVF wit imperceptible eczema. Its obvious that VVF is more deadly and ınımıcal than the latter. the disease as rendered alot of women useless so it isnt as smal as you think it is

dplomaticVal: Nice piece bt poster you'R smh wrong by comparin lethal VVF wit imperceptible eczema. Its obvious that VVF is more deadly and ınımıcal than the latter. the disease as rendered alot of women useless so it isnt as smal as you think it is

what the writer mean is that both symptoms are nothing lethal to the way Stella describe it.

The name of the writer is at the bottom of the article

cannonnier:

what the writer mean is that both symptoms are nothing lethal to the way Stella describe it.

The name of the writer is at the bottom of the article

Owkies. thought you invented the doggerel.

Nevertheless VVF stil remains dangerous and deleterious

Stella!!!!!!!!!,,,,,were ar u @!!!!!......

dplomaticVal:

Owkies. thought you invented the doggerel.

Nevertheless VVF stil remains dangerous and deleterious

sorry, my mobile got drown.


i did a little goole, ofcourse no disease is 'not-dangerous but the major causative agent of the disease, but rather POVERTY AND ILLITERACY caused it.