₦airaland Forum

The family of late Nollywood actress Ada Ameh have released the schedule of activities for the burial of the renowned actress.

The actress who died on the 17th day of July 2022 at Warri, Delta state is to be buried on the 26th day of August 2022, at Otukpo LGA of Benue state.

Find attached, the schedule of activities.

https://saharareporters.com/articles/family-announces-burial-plans-nigerian-actress-ada-ameh

It is sad that even a lady that ordinary is more sympathetic towards the pain and plight of others than males joined in murdering her fellow lady and likely schoolmate.

If only the north will channel this energy and anger towards the leaders that have kept them a century backwards by mobilizing to kick them out of office...but no, they will rather kill in the name of religion over a prophet they have never met, and over a prophet in whose lifetime, this likely would have not happened.

Christianity and other religions have their issues, no doubt, but the truth is as a Muslim, you can wear a shirt boldly labelled- "Jesus is a goat" and walk in peace anywhere in Nigeria. You can even wear that shirt into a church in the Vatican and they will allow you attend the church service and pray that God forgives you.

In contrast, try wearing a similar shirt with an inscription against the person of the prophet Muhammad (SAW), and step out anywhere in this country where there are Muslims, particularly in the North...you will be lucky to return with your life.

Nigerian Muslims have a lot of work to do on tolerance. You believe in Allah and the prophet, that is great. You have a right to, but let them fight their battles. Irrespective of what your religion tells you, murder is a crime under Nigerian laws and all over the world.

It is not enough to just condemn this act. When you go online and see the number of individuals in support of this barbaric act, you will understand that there is an urgent need to teach your kids differently before things get out of hand.

The North is sitting on a time bomb!

Kindly note that we have condemned extrajudicial killings all over the country...be it by IPOB, bandits, boko haram, armed robbers and regular citizens...but this thread is about Deborah. The girl that was beaten, stoned, killed and burnt yesterday.

When a new religion pops up and instructs its followers to kill anyone that prays in public, the same people supporting this unfortunate incidence will cry fowl because another religion is preventing them from practicing their religion in peace, whereas they are doing same thing by killing an individual that purportedly spoke against the prophet, simply because some twisted teacher taught them so.

Practice your religion, fight against hunger and for the future of your kids roaming the streets and let God handle His own battles.

God help us.

ivolt:
There is no accuser as she is dead.
The case is between the Sate and Mr. suspected rapist.

The state is actually the accuser. Even if she was alive, it is still the state to prosecute...and by the way, you don't refer to him as a suspected rapist anymore. He has be discharged and acquitted of the offences for which he was charged. The state can only appeal the acquittal.

LilMissFavvy:
I am more interested in your second paragraph. This occurrences happened in Nigeria, fine. The crime section I told you to glance through has thousands of threads on rape cases which happened in Nigeria, yet you are here talking like you are not aware of all the corruption and injustices. Is the EFCC incorruptible? Is one assured of justice in Nigeria all the time? What happened to the Deeper life sexual assault case. what happpened to Sylvester who died last year, who was forced to drink substances for his refusal to join a cult', has he gotten justice? From what we read, one of the suspects said his father knows the chief judge. Search for the answers to my questions and keep it to yourself, but at this point, I will ignore you because, you do not accept reality.

Will I be right to say everything you've written here are simple based on what you saw or heard on social media, and you were never physically present when they happened or present in court as the evidence were presented?

ivolt:
When a politician is discharged by the court on money laundering charges due to lack of evidence or an incompetent prosecutor, nobody cries about false allegation. In fact, most people will curse the judge and accuse him of being bribed.

If a kidnapper or bandit is discharged by the court for lack of evidence, many of you crusaders will get
angry and lament about the corrupt country. In this case, nobody raises dust about false allegations.

If a Yahoo boy escape jail due to lack of evidence, the same crowd don't open thread
about "false allegations".

The reason many people give for supporting jungle justice is that the suspects are often
freed by the court. Again, these same people don't care about false allegations in such cases.

There was a thread about a man who spent decades in jail but was later freed. Surprisingly, these
activists are nowhere to be found on the thread to cry and lament about false accusations because his allege offence was not related to rape.

But immediately there is a news about a rape case, these crowd go into overdrive and starts to
convulse about "false accusations". They dive deep into conspiracies of the victim lying, or just
wicked or a setup.
We are told stories of how the posters or their family suffers similar "false allegations".

It makes one wonder what triggers the unhinged response to rape cases. Guilty conscience?

This is just like saying because a doctor has been treating malaria only, he has no right to complain about the severity of cancer. Everybody cannot take up all fights at a time...if I speak against one evil, you speak against another, gradually, we will right societal evils.

In any case, You are just buttressing my points. These alleged kidnappers and bandits and yahoo boys are all predominantly men and are facing same issues that victims of false accusations in sexual offences are facing. Nobody believes any of them even after acquittal because they are men and "men are evil".

Now in contrast, see how females suspects are treated. From better prison facilities to fair handling each time they are brought to court...even the female alleged kidnappers, internet scammers and homicide suspect. Very fair treatment as against the average men that are loaded in overpopulated cells and brought to court in heavy chains.

Let's not just use this to distract ourselves from the issue at hand which is false accusations for sexual offences and domestic violence issues.

We have been speaking against these and we will not let bullies stop us from spreading the word.

Shallom.

PerfectStranger:
What prove did the accuser tender in court?
Or is the prove only limited to the accused? You don't sound too smart.

She just confirmed my fears. She believes the man should prove his innocence because he is guilty until proven innocent instead of the other way round.

The burden of proof is on the prosecution, and in this, they failed...at least that's what this judgement means.

Men please be careful out there. An accusation can ruin your life.

LilMissFavvy:
I think out of 1,000 rape accusations against men, only one or two of such accusations would be false. Often times, men are always guilty of the rape' they are accused' of. Check the crime' section, and you will see the number of rape cases which some guilty men confessed to, and you will know that truly majority of men are rapist'. Men are not endangered specie. However, I feel that false accusations should carry at least 5yrs imprisonment, because I cannot understand how a man could be accused of rape, and he is unable to provide enough concrete evidence to prove his innocence.

As for the story above, I believe the guy might have been guilty, but has been able to get off the hook through bribe or something. Let me read the threads all over again.

One or two in a thousand? Where exactly did you get this statistics from? I'll tell you where. From emotions.

As for the issue of bribing the judge, it appears you do not know much about how trial works so I'll advise you research more. One free lecture though- the judge in a matter can only base his judgement from the fact presented and proven before him...not from what he sees on social media.

The man has been acquitted and the prosecution has a right of appeal. Until there is a contrary judgment from the appeal court, let's please let this innocent man try to put his life back together.

BotRascal:
Whey you want this your post to fly to front page or what, men an endangered specie! Joke of the century.....
So the man was falsely accused or what, so the girl wasn't raped or she fell sick and suddenly developed VVF.. So may sick people around here.
The onus of evidence falls on the prosecution, and this is what failed, too many clashing evidence presented to court and sadly there is no technology that cAn detect semen sample after two months in a rape incident, mind you she was admitted two month for urinary problems bla bla bla, then VVF was detected for her age. Who caused it?
Did she just get VVF , the wife was convicted of negligence, she should appeal the case and sue NAPTIP, since her husband and son is innocent, she should. And she would win.

It is normal to see ladies like you trivialize the plight of men. It's almost like you take pleasure from seeing men suffer. That not withstanding, let's analyze your response logically.

Firstly you said my assertion that men were endangered is a joke. I have no response to this as I believe it's unfortunate that despite all evidence, you still feel this way. I can't help you on that. Only God can...and yes, I believe this should be in the front page for more people to be informed.

Secondly, on whether the man was falsely accused, I answer in the affirmative. That is exactly what an acquittal means, and unless the prosecution succeeds on appeal, that man is an innocent man and has always been. You only judge him guilty on sentiments, not facts.

On whether she was raped or not, let's be clear on what we actually know. The police was the prosecution and it is their duty to try to find him guilty. The police hospital said she died as a result of STIs related issues. The general hospital which is an independent party and also government owned performed an autopy and disputed the report of the police. They opined that she died of natural causes. I leave this for open minded readers to drawn an inference from.

Next, assuming but without conceding that she indeed had STIs. Is there a possibility that just like the chrisland girl, she was actually sexually active with people in school and elsewhere? OK, let's assume she was raped, is there anything to suggest that this was done by the man out of the billions of men on earth? The son is nowhere to be found so he hasn't been taken to court. Is there a possibility that the son is guilty but the man is actually innocent? Ponder about this.

You should seek for the the facts of the wife's conviction before commenting. What if she admitted to having reasons to believe that the boy was up to something and did nothing about it? If you weren't in that court during the trial, look for transcripts of the proceedings before you come to condemn an acquitted man here.

I pray for you this morning, that someday you will not be wrongly accused of an offence you did not commit and the world calls for your head even after you have been cleared because they really wish you were guilty.

It is better to free 10 guilty persons against whom a case have not been proven than to convict one innocent person.

Kriss216:
God bless you massively, OP.

I just don't know how to thank you for this great piece. Come and marry my girlfriend, you deserve her more.

Lol...it's just unfortunate really the things men go through and can't talk about because nobody cares even when they do.

I woke this morning to an thread on the front page of our dear nairaland titled-

Ochanya: State court acquits husband of raping minor, federal court convicts wife of negligence.

Here is the link-

https://www.nairaland.com/7101496/ochanya-rape-state-court-acquits

Generally, in criminal trials, there is a presumption of innocence, and the standard of proof is to prove beyond reasonable doubt.

Unfortunately for men however, the reverse is the case. Once a man is accused of an offence, particularly allegedly committed against a woman, society consider him automatically guilty until proven innocent.

In the thread refered to above, the man was accused of rape, and everyone called for his head. His life has been in disarray and in different prisons for months, and at the end, the court ruled that there was nothing connecting him directly to the commission of the offense. He was thereafter acquitted.

Despite the acquital, society has already convicted him without any shread of evidence, and are still calling him a rapist. Go through the thread and you will see for yourself what people here on nairaland were saying. These people weren't there when the offense was allegedly committed.

What exactly do we want? Throw him in prison without any evidence, even when an autopsy from a government hospital said the girl died of natural causes? Here is the thing...what if this man is actually innocent?

See also the case of the American actor-Johnny Depp and ex-wife, Amber Heard, which trial is currently ongoing.

She accused the actor of domestic violence against her, and immediately she did this, his career was over. He was dropped from the set of the new pirates of the Caribbean movie, and blacklisted by other producers just on the basis of a mere allegations.

Now he has sued the woman for defamation, and both video and audio evidence; most of which she actually recorded herself, have shown that she actually was the one committing acts of domestic violence against him, not the other way round. She even on one of the audios dared him to report the abuse as nobody will believe him because he is a man.

Now, the twist is on the one end, Johnny Depp lost his career based on a mere accusation, but even with all the evidence already out now against the same accusal, none of her sponsors or employers have sacked her; the double standard.

Conclusion:
We live in sad times when the male gender has literally become an endangered one. I have a father, and I do have brothers, and it will kill me to see them accused wrongly and not be given a chance to defend themselves just because they are men.

Many men, both young and old are dying in prisons awaiting trials for offenses they did not commit, mostly sexually and domestic violence related...and for the few that are lucky to be acquitted and get out, the stigma continues. Nobody believes them.

I saw a thread of a young man here on nairaland that was in prison for 8 years awaiting trial because his friend's girlfriend accused him of rape. He was acquitted, but 8 years of his life is gone, and the girl is walking free. Worse part is people didn't even take him serious when he created the thread here. It would have been different if he was a lady.

I understand there are true victims of rape and domestic violence, and I stand against those acts...but the truth is that false accusations and the assumption of guilty before proven innocent is really unfortunate.

May we never be in a situation where we know we didn't commit an offence but the whole world disbelief us; that is what many men are going through these days. Men, please be careful. Be careful of the kind of ladies you have around you. Don't be in the right place at the wrong time.

We will continue to speak up against these unfortunate occurrence till something is done.

Righteousness2:
[s][/s] Will you Keep quiet!

LOL. Very sound argument. Of course I will keep quiet.

Righteousness2:
That is as a result of a lack of Knowledge.
It is an error to worship a mere mortal as god.
No man is to be worshipped as god.
Prince Philip is or was a mere creature who has gone to Eternity in Heaven or Hell based on who he believed in Whole on Earth.
His position of prince does not Matter on that side.
Their is no other to be worshipped that the ALMIGHTY GOD, The Creator of the Heavens and Earth.

We Send Prayers to people of Vanuatu, in the Name of JESUS,that the Eyes of their Understanding be opened and they Have Encounter with JESUS Christ, the KING of kings so that they will be saved

Hey, you need to calm down. You're condemning them for worshipping a man as God simply because you were taught to only worship another man (Jesus) as God.

If Jesus could be born of a mortal, live as a mortal and die like a mortal and be God, why can't someone else be? That your own God is different doesn't necessarily make theirs to be false...you were just taught differently.

At the end we are all going to hell in another man's religion, so let's learn to be tolerant.

Whatever happened to freedom of religion? Would the reaction be same if the guy had gone there with him Pastor or Imam instead?

Kestolove:
na tunga or bosso, mobil Dem do am?

One set from City Gate to Mobil. Another from Bosso. Na MX gal be this o

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Kestolove:
Everything about minna dey eva dey different, Dem dey protest abt end sars see wetin Dem dey carry cum

You wear your shoe, you know where it bites. These are the issues we are currently facing and are voicing out against them.

tamdun:
Very good, see how this protest is spreading, u don't need to insult anyone to spread ur message, but when u call people almajiri, afonja, flat head and u expect them to be on the same page with u?

Well said

QueeenKKfire:
What's she saying?
Our future is BLAEK?

Bleak: Offering little or no hope or excitement. Unprotected.

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