11YEARS OLD FOR SEX IS CHILD ABUSE

Most times when I hear about the laws or even the issues our senate do discuss,I feel so sorry for every Nigerians because what they deliberate on sometimes have no base or should I say it is a matter of money miss road. For example I could remember when our beloved senators were deliberating on whether Nigerians should continue to watch Big Brother Africa or not, to be honesty that is a misplaced priority. The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission is in control of visual and audio and even readable materials in Nigeria, so it is their work to determine what programs Nigerians can get to watch or hear or even read and not the senate.

 There are so many other examples I can give about the money miss road matter that our senate deliberate on but time wouldn’t permit me but not to worry I will find another time where I would write about all of them. For today I want us to actually look at the reason why these senators would leave their home and begin to discuss some matters that are laughable and very annoying. I could remember some few years back, I said if I was going to go into politics I wanted to become a senator and my reason is simple, they get paid per sittings. If I can bring an issue that would continue to be deliberated on, then I am rich. It won’t matter if the issue is important or if it is a top priority as much as I can build a solid argument for my case, the deliberation shall continue.

Now you might be wondering what this has to do with anything, not to worry I would explain it to you. Sometimes last week I heard that the senate passed 48 or there about bills into law under ten minutes and I was shocked but then again I felt probably they were issues that had been deliberated on over and over again. Still with that I feel that for a country to be truly developed bills shouldn’t be rushed, they should go through proper scrutiny and it should be well deliberated on. Just yesterday night I came across something on Nairaland and I just lost it, it was actually the respond of Fani-Kayode to the law that allows an 11year old to have sex in Nigeria. It wasn't what he said that concerns me but the fact that the senate wants the official age for having sex in Nigeria to be 11years, now tell me if that isn’t a money miss road discussion. It is so crazy and morally wrong to think of an 11years old already having sex not to talk of making that age the official age for having sex. In defence of the committee on judiciary, human rights and legal matters who passed the bill, they said “the passage of the bill would give legal backing for the prosecution of sexual offender”. I say a big to hell with that, so they want us to believe that the only way to prosecute sexual offenders better is by making the official age of having sex 11years, I am no lawyer neither did I study law but from what I know this is bullsh*t (pardon my word), i see this as a way of protecting these sexual offenders and abusing the child.

The question now is this, who in their right senses would suggest that an 11years old child should be allowed to have sex? Just two set of people, I think one; a sexual insane freak who thinks having sex with underage is the best form of entertainment, two; a Nigerian senator who knows that bills like this would require more sittings to deliberate on which implies more money in the pocket. Left to me I see no reason why someone would say I shouldn’t stop my kid from having sex once he or she is 11years old unless that person is mentally drained.  Most countries like America, England, France, Canada etc have very strong way of prosecuting sexual offenders and it doesn’t involve the legalisation of an 11year old to have sex.

From any angle you might want to look at this, the bottom line here is the fact that this bill is wrong and bad not only for our kids but for Nigeria as a country, I mean if a child of 11years old can have sex technically that child is an adult because technically sex is for adults. So if an 11years old can be allowed to have sex, then I propose they should also allow that 11year old fend for his/herself, drive a car, get a job, in fact contest for election, that wouldn’t be a bad thing right since they are already having sex, why can’t they do other things that adults can do.

At this juncture I would like to call on every well meaning Nigerians to say no to this law unless you are ready to allow your child to be abuse because from the way I see it, this is another form of child abuse. Thank You