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hansad:
Yes, Yerima ran away with a bill that makes a little girl an adult once the girl is married - even at age six.


Yes, Yerima brough sharia criminal laws to Nigeria and it spread like wild fire to 12 northern states of Nigeria; after which Boko Haram emerged and has maintained it is fighting for a country governed with sharia criminal laws.

Despite all these, on any presidential election day, the Soyinkas would prefer a Sani Yerima to an Ebele Clark from SS or a Chukwuma Okoro from SE for president of Nigeria - the 2011 march for Jonathan was circumstantial.

Spot on my bro." They collaborate in killing at night, and the first to ask who did it in the morning".

Interesting how our leaders legislate the future of our children and the youth.You wonder if they are here to help us or help their own gratification.After this bill is legalize some Nigerian and youths will still go about boasting how they are related to these set of law makers and how they want them re-elected for another four years. Rather we should be the ones contesting to make better future legislation, not asking for power,roads and jobs but building the roadmaps for the future through policies.
All I can say is that this generation reminds me of Esau.
There was once a country indeed.

UNFORTUNATELY, MOST PEOPLE HERE THINK THESE CONGRESS MEN/WOMEN ARE WORKING FOR THEM, WRONG. AS LONG AS THE MONEY KEEP COMING AND IT DOESN'T AFFECT THEIR OWN CHILDREN, THEY COULD CARELESS,SO SAD.

bettercreature:
Still wondering why we are praising MKO ABIOLA

Abiola fought for a cause (democratic government) till the point of death. In other words, after wining the most peaceful election in the history of Nigeria without giving him the mandate (Abacha), he was given option either to rescind his decision as a democratic President in order to regain total freedom from prison or stick to his decision but remains in prison yard till death, but he choose to be inside the prison until his death instead of reversing his decision.

As compared to other forms of election we have been experiencing up till date in Nigeria, his winning cuts across every geo-political zones in Nigeria irrespective of tribe, religion, sex and ethnicity. However, he was an independent candidate: parties were running after him to contest under their platform instead for him to be running after them. At the end, he just align himself with a political party to fulfill constitutional process.


In the same vein, Ojukwu started Biafra, a cause for emancipation. But he bolted even in the battle field, leaving his own people in the midst of the battle, while he was enjoying himself in Ivory Coast despite the fact that he was the originator. He ran away when defeat is fast approaching unlike MKO who died for what he believed in.

Through this fight, democracy came to stay sooner and Nigeria have been enjoying democratic setting up till date.

This is the kind of people we can call hero, not someone who conceded defeat even when it was obvious he has no option: he came, he fought, he conquered but didn't enjoy his labour.

Where is z Oby Ezekwesili and her BBOGG Now they have a work to do and they kept silent Stupid woman

When modern lifestyle is subjected to the tenets prescribed by medieval literatures, there must inexorably be moral aberrations that only blind adherence to culture and religion can justify. Men like Yerima have mental and psychological issues

mrrock:
You could be a kid or just someone who don't know a thing about politics, and as such taking everything at face value. So, you wanted to see Yerima as the sponsor when he could lobby someone else to do it for him?.

So you think someone of Sen. Chris Anyanwu's caliber would sponsor such bill if she didn't believe in it? You are definitely the kid here.

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THE SAME YERIMA IS THE ONE WHO PROPOSED SHARIA STARTING IN ZAMFARA STATE THAT LATER METAMORPHOSISED TO BOKO HARAM.


WHY IS THIS MAN IN NIGERIA SENATE ?
YOUTHS ARE SLEEPING

Rather than seeking to claim moral high ground and throwing tantrums from a safe distance, I suggest Soyinka and all others dismayed by that law go to court to seek interpretation of the act as to whether it is consistent with the letters of the law.

I say this because public odium alone has never been koown to be very effective in causing any change in this country.

You've spoken well.

koedased:
I still cant believe that bill was passed, what are senators thinking in their head

Do they look like they think with their heads? Bunch of rogues.

knowledgeable:
Spot on my bro." They collaborate in killing at night, and the first to ask who did it in the morning".

Your lack of integrity has allowed you to equate all peoples who share similar religion to Yerima, even when they differ in principle and ethics. Yes 50% of the SW decided to vote for Buahri, a man who is by yards and miles better than Goodluck Jonathan ever will be, these same SW and vast votes in North were Jonathan's winning ticket over Buhari in 2011. Stop calling a dog bad names just so you can kill it.

The SW witnessed the killing at night; when morning came 4 years later , the SW made sure justice was served

Nigeria need more MEN like sir Wole Soyinka. Men who will call a spade. ....A spade. No matter whose ox is gored ! I pray to age GRACEFULLY like you .

bettercreature:
Still wondering why we are praising MKO ABIOLA

kilomode e mo

haha! Soyinka is calling Buhari to stop the child bill when Aisha herself got married to the President when she was only 18 and the President was at his fifties.

sounds more like a thinly veiled north/south tribalism division hit piece rather than trying to get a true understanding of the bill which focuses on rape and other offenses. under age marriage is another topic for the national assembly to address in the future.


Nigerian Senate Approves Life Imprisonment For Child Rapists
By Morgan Winsor

Nigeria’s Senate passed a bill Wednesday that approved life imprisonment for rapists and those who have sex with children under 11 years old, a Nigerian newspaper reported. The legislation could help build a stronger law against sexual crimes in the West African country where scores of women and children are subject to rape and sexual violence.

The bill included various sentences and fines for other sexual offenses such as incest, child pornography, sexual tourism, gang rape, sexual harassment, prostitution of mentally disabled persons, lacing drinks with drugs with intent to sexually abuse, and deliberately infecting someone with HIV and other diseases. The bill also mandated storing names of sex offenders in a database, Premium Times reported.

“Culprits would never be employed in any institution where they may pose a risk to unsuspecting persons. You can see that the penalties are weighty,” Sen. Chris Anyanwu, the bill’s sponsor, told the Nigerian newspaper Wednesday.

The bill also provides a witness protection program to safeguard victims and witnesses in trials for sexual crimes. The bill’s passage followed a report by Nigeria’s Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, which called for stricter penalties for sexual offenders, the Premium Times reported.

Rape and underage sex is widespread across Nigeria, and the country has long lacked strict legislation to provide legal backing for prosecuting sexual offenders. In one case, a pastor in Edo state was sentenced to just five years in prison for raping and impregnating a 12-year-old in 2013. The western state recorded 96 rape cases between January 2012 and August 2014, but only nine convictions were secured, according to an investigation by Premium Times.

“As the law stands now, there are lots of loopholes for offenders to escape convictions,” Henry Idahagbon, the attorney general and commissioner for justice in Edo, told the newspaper last year.

The new Sex Offences Bill could change that. The bill is expected to pass in Nigeria’s House of Representatives on Wednesday and then will need President Muhammadu Buhari’s signature to become effective. However, similar legislation fell short after passing in the Senate last year, under former President Goodluck Jonathan’s watch.

http://www.ibtimes.com/nigerian-senate-approves-life-imprisonment-child-rapists-1953232



Nigeria: Sexual Offences Bill and Life Sentence for Rapists

By Joseph Onyekwere

http://allafrica.com/stories/201411040256.html

Fools and perverts getting paid for passing stupid bills. #GodpunishYerima

TRADELYN:
Dear Prof,

I was fascinated to learn about your stand on this sensitive issue.

Now, I'm so glad to know that we still have noble men like you.

#Respect!

bros for a yoruba man to condemn this child marriage madness to me is normal there is nothing special about it. Because yorubas do not go into child marriage naturaly.

What am waiting for is for someone from hausa/fulani who will condemn it. If anybody from that stuck condemns child marriage then i will beleive that nigerians are serious.

Soyinka is calling on Buhari not to sign the bill into law, the question is how old was Aisha when she got married to Buhari?

Infew days from now Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (the Emir of Kano & former CBN GOVERNOR) will get married to his forth wife. A 17years old girl (some people will say at 17 she is an adult).

In Islamic world they enjoy child abuse. They have no respect FOR the female folk. To them women are created only for men‘s sexual plaesure.

They see women as pawn in their chesss board just to play with. My main anoyance in the whole issue is that their so called learned women are doing little or nothing about it.

I pity the girl child from the northern part of this zoo called Nigeria.

DanceVille:
Nice Write-up Sir Wole....
This man is a literature Icon...
#TrueFacts!
Wanna be like this Man...
A man of courageous heart!.

#TwaleSir!

I don't doubt that Wole is repository of knowledge, but name one literature that he wrote that is being read the world over please.

again, the bill concerns rape and abuse but since the subject keep coming back to child brides lets indulge.


Africa
Forced to Marry Before Puberty, African Girls Pay Lasting Price

By SHARON LAFRANIERENOV. 27, 2005


CHIKUTU, Malawi - Mapendo Simbeye's problems began early last year when the barren hills along Malawi's northern border with Tanzania rejected his attempts to grow even cassava, the hardiest crop of all. So to feed his wife and five children, he said, he went to his neighbor, Anderson Kalabo, and asked for a loan. Mr. Kalabo gave him 2,000 kwacha, about $16. The family was fed.

But that created another problem: how could Mr. Simbeye, a penniless farmer, repay Mr. Kalabo?

The answer would shock most outsiders, but in sub-Saharan Africa's rural patriarchies, it is deeply ingrained custom. Mr. Simbeye sent his 11-year-old daughter, Mwaka, a shy first grader, down one mangy hillside and up the next to Mr. Kalabo's hut. There she became a servant to his first wife, and, she said, Mr. Kalabo's new bed partner.

Now 12, Mwaka said her parents never told her she was meant to be the second wife of a man roughly three decades her senior. "They said I had to chase birds from the rice garden," she said, studying the ground outside her mud-brick house. "I didn't know anything about marriage."

Mwaka ran away, and her parents took her back after six months. But a week's journey through Malawi's dry and mountainous north suggests that her escape is the exception. In remote lands like this, where boys are valued far more than girls, older men prize young wives, fathers covet dowries and mothers are powerless to intervene, many African girls like Mwaka must leap straight from childhood to marriage at a word from their fathers.

Sometimes that word comes years before they reach puberty.

The consequences of these forced marriages are staggering: adolescence and schooling cut short; early pregnancies and hazardous births; adulthood often condemned to subservience. The list has grown to include exposure to H.I.V. at an age when girls do not grasp the risks of AIDS.

Increasingly educators, health officials and even legislators discourage or even forbid these marriages. In Ethiopia, for example, where studies show that in a third of the states girls marry under the age of 15, one state took action in April. Officials said they had annulled as underage the marriages of 56 girls ages 12 to 15, and filed charges against parents of half the girls for forcing them into the unions.

Yet child marriages remain entrenched in rural pockets throughout sub-Saharan Africa, from Ghana to Kenya to Zambia, according to Unicef. Studies show that the average age of marriage in this region remains among the world's lowest, and the percentage of adolescent mothers the world's highest.

Many rural African communities, steeped in centuries of belief that girls occupy society's lower rungs, are inured to disapproval by the outside world.

"There is a lot of talk, but the value of the girl child is still low," said Seodi White, Malawi's coordinator for the Women in Law in Southern Africa Research Trust. "Society still clings to the education of the boy, and sees the girl as a trading tool. In the north, girls as early as 10 are being traded off for the family to gain. After that, the women become owned and powerless in their husbands' villages."

In villages throughout northern Malawi, girls are often married at or before puberty to whomever their fathers choose, sometimes to husbands as much as half a century older. Many of those same girls later choose lifelong misery over divorce because custom decrees that children in patriarchal tribes belong to the father.

In interviews, fathers and daughters here unapologetically explained the rationales for forced, intergenerational unions.

Uness Nyambi, of the village of Wiliro, said she was betrothed as a child so her parents could finance her brother's choice of a bride. Now about 17, she has two children, the oldest nearly 5, and a husband who guesses he is 70. "Just because of these two children, I can not leave him," she said.

Beatrice Kitamula, 19, was forced to marry her wealthy neighbor, now 63, five years ago because her father owed another man a cow. "I was the sacrifice," Ms. Kitamula said, holding back tears. She likened her husband's comfortable compound of red brick houses in Ngana village to a penitentiary. "When you are in prison," she said, "you have no rights."

In tiny Sele, Lyson Morenga, a widower, financed his re-marriage two years ago by giving his daughter Rachel, then 12, to a 50-year-old acquaintance in exchange for a black bull, according to his new in-laws. Mr. Morenga delivered the bull to his new wife's family as a partial payment, said his wife's uncle, Stewart Simkonda. Mr. SImkonda said Mr. Morenga had promised to deliver a larger payment after the impending marriage of Rachel's younger sister.

Malawi government officials say they try hard to protect girls like Rachel. Legislation before Parliament would raise the minimum age for marriage to 18, the legal age in most countries. Currently, marriages of Malawian girls from 15 to 18 are legal with the parents' consent. Women's rights advocates say they welcome the proposal, even though its effect would be limited because many marriages here, like much of the sub-Saharan region, take place under traditional customs, not civil law.

The government trained about 230 volunteers last year in ways to protect children, especially girls. Volunteers for Malawi's Human Rights Commission, Roman Catholic Church workers and police victim-protection units also try to intervene. In Iponga village, for example, Mbohesha Mbisa averted a forced marriage to her uncle at age 13 last year by walking a half-mile to the local police station, where officers persuaded her father to drop his plans to use her to replace her deceased aunt as a wife and mother.

"I was really scared, but I wanted to protect myself," said Mbohesha, now in the sixth grade.

Still, Malawi officials say that this region's growing poverty, worsened by AIDS and recent crop-killing drought, has put even more young girls at risk of forced marriage.

"This practice has been there for a long time, but it is getting worse now because there is desperation," said Penston Kilembe, Malawi's director of social welfare services. "It is particularly prevalent in communities that have been hard hit by famine. Households that can no longer fend for themselves opt to sell off their children to wealthier households."

"The gains which were made in addressing early marriages are being lost," said Andrina Mchiela, principal secretary for the Ministry of Gender.

Women's rights advocates want to abolish marriage payments, or lobolo, saying they create a financial incentive for parents to marry off their daughters. But even the advocates describe the tradition as politically untouchable.

In its most benign form, lobolo is a token of appreciation from the groom's family to the bride's. At its most egregious, it turns girls into the human equivalent of cattle. In much of northern Malawi, lobolo negotiations are typically all-male discussions of down payments, installments, settlements and the occasional refund for a wife who runs off.

Jimmy Mwanyongo, a 45-year-old village headman in Karonga, explained the marriage of his daughter Edah much as he might any commercial transaction. Several years ago, he said, sitting on a straw mat in his six-room house, he promised to care for his neighbor's two cows.

Instead, he sold the cows to educate his adopted son. When the neighbor, Ridein Simfukwe, lost his wife a year later in 2002, Mr. Mwanyongo said he felt obliged to offer his daughter as a replacement. "Because I had sold the two cows, I had no choice," he said.

Edah was 17, doe-eyed and voluptuous. Even with an illegitimate son, her neighbors and relatives say, she had her pick of suitors. Mr. Simfukwe was 63, with nine grown children and a flock of grandchildren.

Mr. Simfukwe said he considered Edah a bit young for him. But "her father decided that although I am old, I am the right person."

"I think it was a tribute to my character," he said. "Edah was willing. I didn't tie ropes around her neck and drag her."

Edah said her father did everything but that. For nine months, she said, she held out until "I thought I would die of sorrow."

"My father refused to allow me to eat," she said. "He chased me from the house. He said, 'Go find somewhere where you can sleep!' He said, 'Go to your husband! If you don't want to go there, I will whip you to death!' "

Her mother, Tabu Harawa, sided with her daughter, to no avail. "I told him, 'It is like you are killing her,' " she said. "It was shameful."

She said, "If it happens again, I will divorce him."

Now 20, Edah has an 11-month-old girl and is racked by fears for her future. "My husband is old," she said, sitting on the porch of her tiny thatched hut. "He may die soon. Most likely he leave me with more children. So where will I go?"

Her life, she suggested, is about as free as that of the two prized oxen her father now hooks up to his wooden cart for springtime plowing. "I am like a slave," she said.

Some of Edah's neighbors pity her. Others joke that she has married her own grandfather. Their reaction is one hint that even the most traditional Africans are starting to frown on marriages of young women to old men, as Edah's mother said, "for the sake of cows."

Mwaka Simbeye has her fellow villagers in Chikutu to thank for her return to her parents' home after her sojourn in her neighbor's hut. Now back in the second grade, she is still young enough to be charmed by a simple game of toss. Her body remains that of a child's.

At Mr. Kalabo's, she said in a barely audible whisper, "I had to do all the household chores. Washing the plates, cleaning the house, fetching water, collecting firewood, cooking when the first wife wasn't around."

Her father, Mapendo Simbeye, who repaid his $16 debt with Mwaka, said he took her back after hearing that the police could arrest him. In a clearing that serves as the village social center, he said he underestimated her, adding, "My daughter is worth more than 2,000 kwacha."

"I did it out of ignorance," he said. "I had five kids, no money and no food. Then Mr. Kalabo wanted the money back so I thought of selling the daughter. I didn't know I was abusing her."

Mwaka's mother, Tighezge Simkonda, looks like an older version of her daughter and is no less shy. "I did object," she said softly, glancing nervously at her husband chatting nearby. "I said, 'My daughter is very young.' "

"But the control is with the man," she said. "The daughters belong to the man."




Study Tracks Millions of Child Brides

By RICK GLADSTONEJULY 21, 2014

More than 700 million women alive today were married as children, and about 250 million of them — more than one in three — were wed before they reached 15, Unicef said in a study released Monday, on the eve of an international meeting in London, the Girl Summit, sponsored by Unicef and the British government. It aims to mobilize efforts to end female genital mutilation and child, early and forced marriages. The study said child marriage remains widespread in parts of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. South Asia is home to almost half of all child brides worldwide, the study found. While an adolescent girl today is about a third less likely to be subjected to genital mutilation compared with 30 years ago because of activism, legislation and changing attitudes, Unicef said that in countries where it is still practiced, parents “continue to compel their daughters to undergo the procedure because of strong social pressure.”

I sincerely doubt that this came from the prof. and if it did then he's just as ignorant as the rest of you mofos!

Please can someone send a link were one can download the full copy of the bill. I have looked at the National Assembly website but can't see it. Thanks in advance.

more info on the global situation ...

http://tooyoungtowed.org/

Child, Bride, Mother


By Stephanie Sinclair

https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/exposures-guatemala-bride-slide-1LPA/exposures-guatemala-bride-slide-1LPA-jumbo.jpg

Sandra, 14, was married three years ago and now has a 5-month-old son, Alexander. Her husband, 26, met her in the neighborhood.

In Guatemala, the legal age of marriage is 14 with parental consent, but in Petén, in the northern part of the country, the law seems to be more of a suggestion. Underage brides are everywhere. They parade endlessly through Petén’s hospital in San Benito, seeking medical care. Most have traveled from the villages along the mud-soaked roads that flow out in all directions.

I visited almost a dozen of these villages to meet some of the child brides of Petén for the latest Too Young to Wed transmedia project, this one a partnership with the United Nations Population Fund. Guatemala was the 10th country I had worked in documenting the issue of child marriage since 2003, after a chance encounter with several young brides in Afghanistan.

Child marriage is pervasive in more than 50 countries, with girls in rural areas of developing nations especially vulnerable. In the villages of Guatemala, around 53 percent of women age 20 to 24 were married before age 18, and 13 percent before age 15, according to the Population Council. Many of these girls faced harsh consequences, similar to those of child brides in other developing nations. They had withdrawn from their educations, some as early as elementary school; were subject to physical and sexual violence; risked dangerous pregnancies and went without crucial medical care. Many aspects of their lives were controlled by older men who considered the girls little more than sexual and domestic servants.

Furthermore, the physically immature and psychologically unready young mothers were prone to complications during childbirth, which often took place at home. For girls in Petén villages, the journey to competent care could take hours and the consequences dire. According to the International Health Alliance, Petén has the highest rate of maternal mortality in Guatemala at 172 deaths for every 100,000 births. The infant mortality is also high at 40 deaths for every 1,000 births.

When I visited the hospital, there were no fewer than four babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, all born premature to 14-year-old mothers.

“We call these children ‘little miracles,’ because it is a miracle that he is alive,” said Dr. Daniel Álvarez, a pediatrician with San Benito National Hospital, pointing out an infant who weighed only one and a half pounds at birth. “We don’t have the adequate equipment to treat a child that’s so little.”

Other times, the girls’ problems began only after making it home with their babies, where they were frequently abandoned by their husbands. Aracely was four months pregnant when her husband left, declaring the child wasn’t his. Now 15, Aracely is resigned to the burdens of being a single mother.

“During the time I was pregnant, he didn’t give me any money. He hasn’t even come to see the boy now that he’s a year old,” she said. Aracely is not alone in her experience. The United Nations Population Fund estimates that in 2015 more than 550,000 Guatemalan girls will marry before they are 18. That’s 1,500 girls married every day in just one country.

https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/exposures-guatemala-bride-slide-ATB2/exposures-guatemala-bride-slide-ATB2-jumbo.jpg

Aracely was 11 when she married her husband, who was 34. Now 15, she is raising her son on her own.

I thought I’d have a better life. But at the end, it didn’t turn out that way. — Aracely, 15
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https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/exposures-guatemala-bride-slide-9J49/exposures-guatemala-bride-slide-9J49-master495.jpg


Carmen, left, 14, is three months pregnant. She lives at her in-laws’ house, right, with her husband, who is 23.

I was in school until fifth grade, when I got married. I have been raising my chickens to kill them when the baby is born. I was sad because I didn’t want to be pregnant. I was just sad, I don’t know why. — Carmen, 14

https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/exposures-guatemala-bride-slide-Z9TN/exposures-guatemala-bride-slide-Z9TN-jumbo.jpg

Sulmi, 14, who is 9 months pregnant, at her home.

My family was a little sad when I got married. They said I was really little and it’s a lot of responsibility to take care of someone. I was a little sad to be married so young. I am the youngest in my family to be in a union. Getting married is a lot better and prettier because you get to wear a big white dress. — Sulmi, 14

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Rosario, 14, looked at her baby in the neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital in San Benito.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/exposures-child-bride-mother-stephanie-sinclair.html

This is the time we need the civil societies to act.

urchmanx:
Please can someone send a link were one can download the full copy of the bill. I have looked at the National Assembly website but can't see it. Thanks in advance.

courtesy of @all4naija

For those who can visit the page, the file below is part of what the sexual offenses bill entails.

NB: This is not originally from the national congress website.

https://www.nairaland.com/2357862/senate-makes-11-years-legal/7


www.nairaland.com/attachments/2480672_20150604200337_pnged2f5d669ebe2544dbd2e67c51b67a15


and ....

https://www.nairaland.com/2357862/senate-makes-11-years-legal/6

Re: Senate Makes 11 Years The Legal Age To Have Sex In Nigeria by bushdoc9919(m): 7:58pm On Jun 04
For those of you too lazy to look for the actual law...here it is (2013 DRAFT)...

1) A person who commits an act which causes
Defilement
penetration with a child is guilty of an offence called
of children
defilement.

(2) A person who commits an offence of defilement with a child aged eleven years or less shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life. (3)

A person who commits an offence of defilement with a child between the age of twelve and fifteen years is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for life. (4)

A person who commits an offence of defilement with a child between the age of sixteen and eighteen years old is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for life


Full Law here at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/267639198/Nigeria-Sexual-Offences-Bill-2013#scribd

I hope this clarifies a lot of issues.

Mods....please change the title.

I wont respond to this until the Prof himself confirms he actually said this. Remember the Igbo saga.....abt how they reason and vote? Lol

You will sure kill your self of hate. Is that the issue here?

nwaezeubom:
I don't doubt that Wole is repository of knowledge, but name one literature that he wrote that is being read the world over please.