Seems like yesterday when we used to love and blow,i lay the slacks you love to flow..........
Well.................... I'm not sure if that's exactly what P.diddy said in that now iconic song 'I'll be missing you' but nevertheless it's exactly a month and eleven days since I wrote my last piece on this blog and the days have flown by faster than my last month's salary.
Since then,a couple of young kids have been gunned down right in their dormitories in Yobe State.
An aircraft somehow navigated the journey from South Korea and then chose to crash land at the airport in San Fransisco.
OJB Jezrel has had to publicly beg for his life and has perhaps belatedly realised that he probably has less friends than he once imagined!
And the rift caused by the mace-attack in the River's State house of assembly is probably deeper than Nigeria's Big Brother Africa representative,Beverly's woman parts.
But what has probably caught my attention,like Senator Yerima at a primary school for little girls and brought my rusty fingers to the computer has to be this #Childnotbride campaign.
It showed the power of information and the Internet in our time.
The influence this medium can wield was brought to the fore once again.
In less than 24hours,#Childnotbride was trending worldwide.
We had once again exposed our dirty linen to the world,just like we did with the poor Aluu boys.
The Internet was abuzz with Nigerian tweets.
Errant youngsters left their porn gazing and Internet fraud for a wee second.
Mischievous adolescent runs-girls were busy tweeting 'Give a girl a pen and not a penis' from their Samsung S4's,when they had obviously left their own pens on campus and were chasing after various penises round Lagos.
Bored housewives took a minute from Internet shopping sites and turning their husband's debit cards into a true piece of plastic and lent their voices to the cause.
Even OJB from his hospital bed(when that guy dey go the India sef!).
The jury is still out on the true intentions of the Nigerian Senate but to give the impression that child marriage was legalised is not only mischievous but frankly misleading.
My distinguished senators do not waste time on matters that will not benefit them materially and impoverish the country more.
But has the law in a manner cordoned it?Maybe.
Can a certain scruffy,goateed Senator from a state that starts with a Z pick a pretty flat chested damsel half his grand-daughter's age from the primary school in his province and make her a wife without having done wrong in the eyes of the Nigerian State?You bet your sweet ass he can!
Have the pot-bellied thieves and perverts in the Senate hijacked an innocent discussion on the appropriate age and mental capacity at which one can renounce citizenship of a country?Sure!
But for a large chunk of us to jump on a band wagon like half starved Syrian children making for the Turkish border( dont bother racking your brains,Linda Ikekji has not blogged about it yet.When she does,you'll understand) beggars belief.
I detest child marriages as much as anyone else or maybe more.
I work in a field where I come up close and personal with young girls going through the horrors of vesico-vaginal fistula and all the other perils of child marriage.
I have been in the trenches campaigning against it,right on the ground,in the most affected areas even before most of this new breed Internet warriors bought their first blackberries and sent their first tweets.
Let's fight a good fight for these girls,let us not insult them with a 24hr Internet blast.
The Aluu4 boys can testify!
P.S:This one if for you Cousin William as you welcome a new life to our family.
Follow @doctorrotcod
Well.................... I'm not sure if that's exactly what P.diddy said in that now iconic song 'I'll be missing you' but nevertheless it's exactly a month and eleven days since I wrote my last piece on this blog and the days have flown by faster than my last month's salary.
Since then,a couple of young kids have been gunned down right in their dormitories in Yobe State.
An aircraft somehow navigated the journey from South Korea and then chose to crash land at the airport in San Fransisco.
OJB Jezrel has had to publicly beg for his life and has perhaps belatedly realised that he probably has less friends than he once imagined!
And the rift caused by the mace-attack in the River's State house of assembly is probably deeper than Nigeria's Big Brother Africa representative,Beverly's woman parts.
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| I don't see this two sharing a cup of tea for a while!. |
It showed the power of information and the Internet in our time.
The influence this medium can wield was brought to the fore once again.
In less than 24hours,#Childnotbride was trending worldwide.
We had once again exposed our dirty linen to the world,just like we did with the poor Aluu boys.
The Internet was abuzz with Nigerian tweets.
Errant youngsters left their porn gazing and Internet fraud for a wee second.
Mischievous adolescent runs-girls were busy tweeting 'Give a girl a pen and not a penis' from their Samsung S4's,when they had obviously left their own pens on campus and were chasing after various penises round Lagos.
Bored housewives took a minute from Internet shopping sites and turning their husband's debit cards into a true piece of plastic and lent their voices to the cause.
Even OJB from his hospital bed(when that guy dey go the India sef!).
The jury is still out on the true intentions of the Nigerian Senate but to give the impression that child marriage was legalised is not only mischievous but frankly misleading.
My distinguished senators do not waste time on matters that will not benefit them materially and impoverish the country more.
But has the law in a manner cordoned it?Maybe.
Can a certain scruffy,goateed Senator from a state that starts with a Z pick a pretty flat chested damsel half his grand-daughter's age from the primary school in his province and make her a wife without having done wrong in the eyes of the Nigerian State?You bet your sweet ass he can!
Have the pot-bellied thieves and perverts in the Senate hijacked an innocent discussion on the appropriate age and mental capacity at which one can renounce citizenship of a country?Sure!
But for a large chunk of us to jump on a band wagon like half starved Syrian children making for the Turkish border( dont bother racking your brains,Linda Ikekji has not blogged about it yet.When she does,you'll understand) beggars belief.
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| Syria??????Ngwano..............Linda,P-square get show for there? |
I work in a field where I come up close and personal with young girls going through the horrors of vesico-vaginal fistula and all the other perils of child marriage.
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| Happy and innocent........as it should be. |
I have been in the trenches campaigning against it,right on the ground,in the most affected areas even before most of this new breed Internet warriors bought their first blackberries and sent their first tweets.
Let's fight a good fight for these girls,let us not insult them with a 24hr Internet blast.
The Aluu4 boys can testify!
P.S:This one if for you Cousin William as you welcome a new life to our family.
Follow @doctorrotcod
