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Dear boy child,

It gladdens my heart to reach out to you via this medium and I know how surprised you would be getting this letter for the first time unlike your female colleagues who have been written to countless times.
Trust you've been good and faring well with the roles society has ascribed to you even though it can be frustrating a times. I am writing to you to let you know that as a boy child, you are allowed to express your emotions just like the female gender, enough of concealing those emotions and bottling them up thereby getting lost in thought and depressions .

I know the society has defined a role for you as the boy child and you are trying to live with it, it says you shouldn't be seen crying so even when those tears wants to roll down , you soak them in just to prove that you are man, I know you are as vulnerable as your opposite sex but the society doesn't see this, I understand your plight of how the society has neglected you all along while empowering the girl child, I understand your need to be directed aright too.

I know a times you made those decisions to due lack of guidance or direction, I know how much you always needed someone to talk to but you never get a listening ear, I know how many times you've wished you came as a girl child so you can get enough attention as she does. Your transition stage to be a man has been a journey you walk through all by yourself, the society believes you need little or no attention, the society expects you to always find a solution to every problem that comes your way all by yourself and I know in trying to do this you have actually missed it at some point, you always wished they came to your school and counsel you on becoming a man but they rather came for the girl child.

I know how many times they've told you to "BE A MAN" over issues you really needed help with,over emotions you needed to channel out, over pains you needed to share, over help you need to ask for, over directions you seem confused with. The society has of a truth complicated your metamorphosis to a Man and that's why I have decided to reach you via this medium that you don't have to be constrained to societal guidelines that has limited you from expressing your inner self, the societal rules that doesn't recognize you also have weaknesses and that you are also vulnerable.

It's Okay to let those tears down when your eyes can't contain them any longer, it's Okay to be in position to ask for help, It's Okay to ask for direction when you are lost, It's Okay to ask to be loved, It's Okay to break down a times, It's Okay not to have answers to some questions. All these doesn't make you less of a Man at all but rather shows you are also human with blood and water running through your body system.

Thanks for patiently reading through this letter dear boy child and I hope to continually write to you . I'll be glad if I can get a response from you so we can together help become a better Man devoid of societal neglect and choking expectations.
Yours Sincerely,
Concerned Male Child.

Society has of late focused on the girl child in turn is rapidly suffocating the boy child.There has been great neglect of the boy in society today.In Kenya today no news is reported when a boy is sodomized,abused,abandoned,mistreated or even decline their right to education.The welfare of this humans has greatly been ignored and they been left out in many projects as the girl child is fore grounded

Since our independence the government has been following policies geared towards social equality and non-discrimination.In the education sector considerable efforts have been made to ensure that regional,special needs and gender disparity are all addressed but statistics from various counties in the country show that the girl child has been fore grounded at the expense of the boy child thus reserving the gain so made.Being a lady am expected to be in the front to support all activities geared towards developing the girl child but I would like the children i will bring to this world to have equal opportunities and neither of them should feel neglected,intimidated or discriminated.I want my children to know that they are both equal before man and God.

We should all join hands and support for better future wives and husbands.We should empower the boy child to strengthen the future fathers.Its sad that the boy child to choose his own future and chart his course without much guidance from the society.The neglect of this cannot go unnoticed.In his bid to find his bearing the boy child has now with vice such as drugs and substance abuse,sexual abuse and dropping out of school.The boy child to be no more just like the white rhinos in Africa if empowerment programmes continue to neglect the boy-child and out of frustration will push him to underground criminal activities.

Reports of boys joining terror gangs and terror groups such as alshabab fill the media every time an attack is reported,some parents remain wondering how their well behaved boy came to think of joining such a dangerous group but what do you expect of him if at all you continue to concentrate on girl and keep telling them be a man and stand up for yourself,how many more of our young men do we want to lose before we realize that enough is enough and we have to stand up and protect this species of humans that is slowly degrading out of our own ignorance.

Both genders are equally for the success of the society and country.Boys need counselling and guidance through their passage to manhood.Conversations of how we can support the boy child should start at the family level.If we allow the boy-child to continue struggling with poverty,unemployment,and dependency,not only will our country suffer economically but we will also lose the contribution of a major part of the society.
HARRIET BRIGHT

Africa is one of the harshest and most difficult places to live in — that is you get to live. Life, especially for men in most parts of the region is marked by an unending struggle to see through diseases, ethnic cleansing, conflict, poverty, forced labor, sexual harassment and other quandaries from birth, through childhood, adulthood and even death. In fact, the journey of a boy child, born in the African soil, starts from the day of conception.

So much research, statistics, writings, oratory and action has been dedicated to the girl child, but nothing substantive has been done for the embattled boy child.

Women empowerment has so far been a great achievement following the vigorous campaigns and guidelines initiated globally, with a solitary endeavor to safeguard, uplift and empower the rights and status of the girl child.

On the contrary, boy child has been forgotten. As a result, they have been rendered or rather subjected to all kinds of inhumane societal mischief, and unending life-struggle.

The male counterparts are left to fight on their own; they hustle and tussle to make it through without the equal opportunities, support, guidance and protection showered and instilled in favour of women.

The boy child in Africa has for many generations unwittingly benefited from a patriarchal society that has prized men over women and sons over daughters. He has always been given priority and dominion over his female counterpart.

There were times when giving birth to a baby boy, meant prosperity and masculinity, while having a girl child was a sign of weakness. But that was then, things have changed in a flash.

All focus and concentration has shifted in uplifting the livelihood and well-being of the female species. It is a sad reality but in terms of considerations, all this is done in the name of gender equity and balance.

It looks ridiculous but in reality, women in this era are gradually and steadily taking over the capabilities, privileges, roles and responsibilities that have been customarily considered to be male dominated.

While people are quick to rush to the rescue of a girl who is raped, they don’t show the same vigour and urgency to a boy who is sodomized, tortured, forced to take drugs or compelled to be a child soldier — in the cases of abductions and recruitment of young boys by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), M23 rebels, Boko Haram, Al-Qaida linked militia al-Shabaab and among others.

A girl child is always considered vulnerable. You can recall 230 secondary school Chibok girls who were kidnapped from their dorm rooms by the Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria mid-April 2014, vigorous campaigns and awareness was initiated under “#BringBackOurGirls” hash-tag. Do we see such campaigns to reclaim back our boys, who have been abducted by these same groups to carry out terrorism activities, killing innocent people?

The heinous act of rape against girls makes me angry as well. Yet, over the years, similar stories though on a smaller scale, appear from time to time in the newspapers, and other media platforms about sodomized boys, and all society has done is look the other way, hoping the cases will just die a natural death. At best, the society have raised only faint whimpers and gone back to sleep as if nothing has happened.

The damage instilled on sodomized boys is just the same as that done to raped girls; it involves the destruction of the identity and worth of the child in his own eyes, in the eyes of the perpetrator — his oppressor — and in the eyes of his extended family and society.

Sodomy is as much an assault and violation of the victim as is female rape. Actually, the distinction is only a question of semantics. The feeling of desolation, devaluation, worthlessness and powerlessness that grip the victims cannot be put into words.

The number of organizations that advocate for female rights are overwhelming. Anything tagged the “girl-child,” is a gold mine for these ever mushrooming organizations.

The female species are being preached more for their market potential than anything else, which might explain why the boy child with his low commercial appeal has been sidelined.

As the issue of women empowerment gains prominence, the girl child is increasingly climbing the corporate ladder. The boy child on the other hand, is neglected and threatened species. The trend is worrying.

When women look at a man, they want to see security, ability to provide and responsibility. However, very little is being done to mold the boy child to grow up into this ‘ideal man’ that the society expects. Women argue that even when it comes to dating, men are reserved these days.

“They expect us (women) to take the lead. Why can’t they take their leadership position in the society? We want men who can be heads in our families,” says an established woman in Kampala, Uganda who earns three times much salary than what the husband earns.

In West Pokot County, Kenya for instance, boys’ education is sacrificed for the sake of livestock. The boy child is introduced to grazing cattle at a very tender age of five. He is also taught how to handle the gun to protect his community and livestock. This denies the child his right to education and a better future.

In our African setting, governments are alarmed by the rate at which young boys are opting to abandon school to work in coffee and tea plantations. Some prefer the streets to beg for money, or rummage in garbage heaps in the city suburbs to collect empty mineral water bottles to sell and earn some money.

Not to forget the gambling menace that have been considered to be an alternative full-time employment by these young boys. Chronic alcoholism is also wasting away the male youth especially in the ghettos in the watchful eyes of the community leaders and authorities.

In Central Kenya for instance, alcoholism is a big problem. Most of those who drink are youth aged 17-28 years. Some time back, women in this region held public demonstrations calling upon the Government to intervene and save their men from alcohol consumption.

They said the men were enslaved by the bottle and had neglected not only their responsibilities as bread winners and protectors of families but had denied their women their conjugal rights.

Young boys in Africa have also been subjected into conscripting to acts of ancient traditional rituals against their wills. For instance the painful traditional circumcision, and ancient practices of facial and body scarification.

The Bagisu culture for instance (from the western slops of Mountain Elgon, Uganda), together with the Sebeyi neighbours, are the only major Ugandan practicing circumcision also known as Imbalu.

Before circumcision, the young boys must stand outside in the cold weather, and receive a cold shower to cleanse them. In Africa, it is believed that circumcision initiation elevates an individual from childhood to adulthood.

People would tell the boy, “if you kick the knife, we shall kill you, if you run away from the knife, your society will disown you.” The boy must exhibit signs of a grown man, by carrying a heavy spear, herding a large heard of livestock, or kill a deadly wild animal like a lion and so on.

The girl child on the other hand is luckier. She is spared of such comments and trials to exhibit signs of a grown woman. Try initiating the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to any of the young girls in the name of traditional right of passage and you will end up in prison. I am left to wonder, do we have selective gender laws that only work on the boy child and spares the girl child?

I have also personally witnessed scenes of a male toddler with blood coursing down the side of his scalp and cheeks while he apparently whimpered at the sight of the ominously looking blood stained apparatus, all which made me grimace with anticipated pain. These traumatizing images will forever remain etched in my memory.

No pain relief drugs as anesthesia, and you cannot flinch your eye when circumcision or body scarification is being carried out. The society consider it as a sign of cowardice and immaturity. Circumcision and body scarification imposed to the boy child are both painful, yet means a lot to many traditions in Africa that practice them.

Recent statistics by education scholars regionally, show that women are crowding up men in popular scholarly classes with the exchange of sex to earn grades or marks from the male lecturers. This has also reflected in the job recruitment and employment opportunities available.

Gender equity notions are erroneous and deceptive. If we de-construct this “truth” from a philosophical point of view, we find that more boys end up in crime than girls; there are more boys in the streets than girls; more boys end up in prison than girls; and research shows that more men die faster than women.

Once a boy child is branded and labelled by society, he keeps the tag into adulthood. Society neither forgives nor forgets the transgressions of a boy child easily.

The abuse of a boy child — whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual — is always swept under the carpet. But if a girl child is concerned, all hell breaks loose.

My line of work has exposed me to heart-rending cases of abuse of the boy child. In all the cases, the victims become bundles of anger, lies and delinquency.

Why should the boy child of today suffer just because historically the girl child was marginalized? Aren’t we also creating disparities that would need future rectification in the process?

Both boys and girls need to be educated and mentored. We will be going wrong as a region if we give much attention to the girl child and forget that tomorrow will come when we will need the boys to become men.

There is need for more men to come out as mentors for the boy child, to guide and teach them what is expected of them as they grow up into men. After all we need each other for a healthy nation.

By Michael Wandati

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The Nigerian University Commission in an emergency meeting held in the early hours of Monday decided to suspend the University of Lagos. The decision to suspend the university was based on health reasons, chief among which is the Bedbug epidemic. This decision was reached after series of reports and complaints emanating from the school. The university authority in its defense stated that a number of fumigation exercises have been carried out to put an end to what has now come to be known among the students as the ‘Bedbug Plague’. A top official of the prestigious institution who pleaded anonymity told our correspondence that, “the fumigation exercise is usually carried out during the holidays when students have vacated the residence”. In contrary, the students who were seen protesting today as early as 7am with tattered looking beds claim that rather than exterminate the vile crawling creatures, the fumigation process (which was not properly done) seem to have empowered the bugs, as they are now seen breeding and crawling in large numbers. “We sometimes wonder who owns the room, we or the bedbugs?” A protesting student in boxers and Arsenal jersey said. ”Welcome to Uni BUG! ” Another one shouted. It is no longer news that students in various halls of residence embark on personal room fumigation from time to time, in a bid to get rid of the vile pests. Even our correspondent who visited a number of rooms in some halls of residence in the school had to conduct most of the interview on her on her feet for fear of getting infected by the bugs. No where seems to be safe as the bugs are found in rooms, common rooms, and even classes. It has been observed that the bedbugs are even more dreaded than the strictest lecturers. This is as a result of the social stigma that befalls anyone on whose body or clothes bedbug is caught in public. Disclaimer: This article is the FICTIONAL work of a squatter who was denied hostel accommodation by the D.S.A."

Your Excellencies Heads of State and Governments Distinguished Delegates Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like, Mr. President, on behalf of the Government and people of Nigeria, to congratulate you and your country on your election to preside over the 70th session of the U.N. General Assembly. 2. May I also express appreciation to your predecessor, Mr. Sam Kahamba Kutesa and the Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon both of whom worked tirelessly to ensure proper articulation of the post-2015 Development Agenda and to maintain the focus and commitment to the ideals of the United Nations. I thank Mr. Ban Ki-moon for his recent visit to Nigeria when we held very useful discussions. Mr. President, 3. Fifty-five (55) years ago almost to the day, my great predecessor, Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa stood on this forum to declare Nigeria’s desire to develop and maintain friendly relations with all countries. He also assured the world of our country’s commitment to uphold the principles upon which the United Nations was founded. 4. Mr. President, my country, Nigeria, has lived by this conviction, even when judgement went against us in territorial disputes with our neighbours. We respected those judgements and abided by them as a mark of respect for the rule of law and the charter of this organization. Nigeria’s record in the U.N. peacekeeping is second to none. I myself as a young officer in the Nigerian Army did tours of duty in Congo and the Lebanon. 5. Nigeria has contributed to U.N. peacekeeping efforts in Ethiopia, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Darfur. Furthermore, we are proud of our contributions to other activities of the U.N. including the Peace Building Commission, the Human Rights Council and security sector reform. Mr. President, 6. We are gratified to note that most countries have pledged commitment to the post-2015 Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with their means of implementation. The successor frameworks of the MDGs have come, Mr. President, with lofty aspirations and if I may say so, heroic assumptions! Nonetheless, they target development cooperation by the international community up to the year 2020. And they deserve universal support. 7. This is because the SDGs mirror the hopes and aspirations of much of the world. 8. I should stress that for the newly adopted SDGs to be truly global, they must be practical. In this regard, the SDGs’ core objectives of poverty eradication and reducing inequalities must be met within the framework of a revitalized global partnership support by concrete policies and actions as outlined in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. 9. Luckily, these two core objectives of the SDGs are precisely at the centre of Nigeria’s new Administration’s agenda. It must be emphasized, Mr. President, that Foreign Direct Investment supplemented where suitable by Official Development Assistance as outlined in the Addis Ababa Agenda are necessary, though not sufficient, conditions for accelerated development in countries that are trying to catch up. 10. In this connexion, I would like to appeal to industrialized countries to redeem their pledge of earmarking 0.7% (nought point seven percent) of their GDP to development assistance. With the sole exception of the UK, all concerned countries have, I am told to meet the UN requirement. But, Mr. President, with SDGs we have the opportunity to improve the lives of people not just in the developing world but in all nations. 11. The Secretary General himself has grouped the SDGs into what he calls six “essential elements” namely: • Dignity • Prosperity • Justice • Partnership • Planet • People As a prerequisite to these and as we look at history and remember the terrible events that gave rise to the birth of the United Nations in 1945, I would like to propose a seventh: • PEACE 12. Peace, Mr. President, is close to the hearts of Nigerians, as we are in the front line in the war on terror. Boko Haram’s war against the people of Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon may not attract as much worldwide attention as the wars in the Middle East but the suffering is just as great and the human cost is equally high. 13. This is a war about values between progress and chaos; between democracy and the rule of law. Boko Haram celebrates violence against the weak and the innocent and deplorably, they hide behind their perverted interpretation of Islam. Boko Haram is as far away from Islam as any one can think of. 14. Many of my colleagues attending this forum would want to know how our new government intends to tackle the huge problems the government has inherited. Friends of Nigeria and foreign investor partners will be encouraged to know that the new Government is attacking the problems we inherited head- on. 15. We intend to tackle inequalities arising from massive unemployment and previous government policies favouring a few people to the detriment of the many. We intend to emphasize quality technological education for development and lay foundation for comprehensive care of the aged, the disadvantaged and the infirm. But for now terrorism is the immediate problem. 16. Accordingly, Mr. President, Members of the General Assembly, the new Nigerian Government which I have the honour to head, moved with dispatch to put in a bold and robust strategy to defeat Boko Haram. Nigeria and her neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger plus Benin are working together to face this common threat within the regional framework of the Lake Chad Basin Commission. We have established a multinational joint task force to confront, degrade and defeat Boko Haram. 17. We have driven them away from many of their strongholds, killed or captured many of their operatives or commanders and freed several hundreds of hostages. 18. Mr. President, one of our major aims is to rescue the Chibok girls alive and unharmed. We are working round the clock to ensure their safety and eventual reunion with their families. Chibok girls are constantly on our minds and in our plans. 19. Mr. President, terrorism is by no means the major or the only evil threatening and undermining the wellbeing of societies around the world. • Corruption • Cross border financial crimes • Cyber crimes • Human trafficking • Spread of communicable diseases • Climate change • Proliferation of weapons are all major challenges of the 21st century which the international community must tackle collectively. Let me reaffirm Nigerian government’s unwavering commitment to fight corruption and illicit financial flows. By any consideration, corruption and cross border financial crimes are impediments to development, economic growth, and the realization of the wellbeing of citizens across the globe. 20. Nigeria is ready and willing to partner with international agencies and individual countries on a bilateral basis to confront crimes and corruption. In particular, I call upon the global community to urgently redouble efforts towards strengthening the mechanisms for dismantling safe havens for proceeds of corruption and ensuring the return of stolen funds and assets to their countries of origin. 21. Mr. President, the world is now facing a big new challenge: human trafficking. This is an old evil taking an altogether new and dangerous dimension threatening to upset international relationships. We in Africa are grieved to see on international networks how hundreds of thousands of our able bodied men and women fleeing to Europe and in the process thousands dying in the desert or drowning in the Mediterranean. 22. We condemn in the strongest terms these people traffickers and will support any measures to apprehend and bring them to justice. At the same time, we are very appreciative of European governments notably Italy and Germany, for their understanding and humane treatment of these refugees. 23. Last year, our continent faced the dreadful occurrence of Ebola. We sincerely thank the international community for the collective efforts to contain this deadly disease. We are not out of the woods yet but we would like to record our appreciation to the United States, United Kingdom, France and China for their outstanding assistance in arresting the spread of Ebola and care of those infected in collaboration with host countries. Mr. President, 24. Nigeria fully subscribes to and fully endorses Goals 13, 14 and 15 of the SDGs regarding Climate Change. In Nigeria, desertification and land erosion and degradation leading to biodiversity loss are real threats to our environment and we shall propose under the auspices of the Lake Chad Basin Commission a regional approach to combat these environmental challenges. 25. We look forward to the UN Summit on climate change in Paris in December 2015. This summit should provide optimism to humanity on addressing the looming threat faced by many communities around the world. Mr. President, 26. We are witnessing a dreadful increase in conflicts fuelled by availability of small arms and light weapons. I call upon all member countries to demonstrate the political will needed to uphold the UN charter. For a start, a robust implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty will guarantee that small arms and light weapons are only legally transferred. Arms traffickers and human traffickers are two evil species which the world community should eradicate. Mr. President, 27. As we engage in these annual debates, we need remind ourselves of the principles that led to the founding of the United Nations. Among those are peaceful coexistence and self- determination of peoples. In this context, Mr. President, the unresolved question of self- determination for the Palestinian people and those of Western Sahara, both nations having been adjusted by the United Nations as qualifying for this inalienable right must now be assured and fulfilled without any further delay or obstacle. 28. The international community has come to pin its hopes on resolving the Palestinian issue through the two – states solution which recognises the legitimate right of each state to exist in peace and security. The world has no more excuses or reasons to delay the implementation of the long list of Security Council resolutions on this question. Neither do we have the moral right to deny any people their freedom or condemn them indefinitely to occupation and blockade Mr. President, delegates of member countries, 29. UN is 70 years old. It can count many more than 70 major achievements as the world’s forum and family reunion. It is my hope that in the next 70 years, it will achieve control of climate, help to eliminate communicable diseases, eliminate major and local conflicts and therefore eliminate the problem of refugees, take major steps towards reducing harmful inequalities between nations and within nations and above all, eliminate nuclear weapons. 30. Mr. President, as this is my first address in this Assembly, I thank you and the delegates for listening so patiently.