I could not help but notice a reiteration – as if to ensure that there is no ambiguity – of the word “child”,near superfluously. Well, we understand “child” as defined in most dictionaries.

The There is however also child as defined by the Nigerian legislature.

This definition is contained in a prior Bill, sponsored, no less, by a notorious serial pedophile and cross-border sex trafficker, yet lawmaker – one Ahmed Yerima.


Does Yerima’s Bill, gleefully assented to by his peers, not simply vitiate this latter,supposedly humane concern for the protection of the child? Again, I confess to being only a ‘bloody layman’ in such matters. However, reading both bills, it strikes me that all the new bill does is empower the clique of paedophiles.

All you need do is “marry” even a six-year old under any local laws, and do whatever you want with her. Through marriage, she is already an “adult”

“defiler” is now fully protected by this law. She is not

This bill, subjected to wrong arguments, merely consolidates the reduction of female minors to sex objects..
As long as you can afford a bag of rice or – as in the case of cross-border tastes such as Ahmed Yerima’s – ten thousand dollars, you are free to rape a child to death.

This, surely cannot pretend to represent the will of a people who care. Once you re-define female adulthood as marital status, all subsequent protection bills for the girl-child are worthless, cynical.



My take;

Professor Wole Soyinka is not totalling condemning this bill but the previous bill sponsored by Yerima that specifies that a female would deemed to be an adult when she is married.
Hence this bill sponsored by Senator Chris would be of no effect to pedophiles who tends to use marriage as a tool for 'raping' kids.


Let's see Senator Chris reply

You were misled by someone who deliberately distorted the content of one of the most profound bills ever passed by the Nigerian legislature, scandalised the proponent and the institution for reasons that you and I may not know.

No where in the SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL That I proposed; no where in the bill passed by Senate was it stated that you can defile an 11 years old.

No where in the bill passed by the Senate was the age “11 years” mentioned.


Senator Chris Anyanwu response is quite good, Professor Wole Soyinka in his own letter did not demonize the bill but he did a critical juxtaposition between the bill in question and the one sponsored by Yerima.

Yerima bill does not ensure child protection while the current bill raised the level of protection for children. But for the current bill to be successful the previous bill must be revisited.

I've taken your virginity,you're mine forever

Someone should bring this bill to my office let me see

Someone should bring this bill to my office let me look into it

femaleGuy:
I've taken your virginity,you're mine forever

Picture or video of d displaced cum disposed hymen or I don't believe

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Picture or video of d displaced cum disposed hymen or I don't believe

lolzzz check my DP its there

Why is Chris being singled out for bashing?

Her initial proposal was to use the legal maturity age of 18 to define the age of a minor i.e. any girl under 18 is considered a child but the northern Moslem Senators kicked against using the legal age limit but rather chose the sexual maturity limit of 12.

What this means is that any individual who is convicted of defiling a girl ( 11 or below) is to be sentenced to life imprisonment. It doesn't state that girls older (12 and above can be wantonly r@ped) but rather offers a lesser sentence.

It must be noted that this is the first piece of legislation that criminalizes and punishes with life imprisonment any individual who defiles or r@pes an underage girl.

Prior to that there were no anti-ped0phile laws.

Wole Soyinka is just seeking attention as usual.

BackDatAssUp:
Why is Chris being singled out for bashing?




Prior to that there were no anti-ped0phile laws.

Wole Soyinka is just seeking attention as usual.

You are right brother, Soyinka should have diverted his fury at the National Assembly and not singling out Senator Chris.

There is an urgent need for anti Pedophile law this would bridge the loophole in the latter bill