For the predator now lurks within
The wails have ebbed
And now we stare aghast
The enemy is covered with a cloak
Masks mask the face of the foe
Now, mighty is our peril
As we no longer know who to fear "
-Mama Zeus
I received this news with zero shock. Is this not still Nigeria? Just the other day, women came out en masse to canvas for CHANGE. Today, the same change we fastened our wrappers for, left our shops for and lent our voices to no longer concerns us. Women ehhh, when would we learn?
What more do you expect from the likes of Yerima? Do you expect he and his cohorts to shoot themselves in the face? Of course not!
But wait a minute, I thought the essence of having representatives in the Senate is to speak our minds? Does this then mean that majority of Nigerians still do not believe in the total liberation of the girl child?
I have a thousand questions but I am predominantly concerned with the clumsy reasons given for the throwing out of a bill that would have ensured that the basic HUMAN rights of the girl child is protected.
Does it mean that Islam and Christianity forbid a woman from owning property or being treated as a human being? I doubt that but I'd let you be the judge of that.
I still wish to recall my former notion that insists that feminism is not a distasteful movement. Imagine that we were all feminists, undoubtedly our voices would be heard far above the clamour of bondage, mediocrity and this oppression disguised with religion and other shenanigans. Masks, indeed!
Hopefully when they decide to throw this Bill back in, our daughters and their daughters would finally have a say. I end with these inspiring words by William Golding and an anonymous writer:
"I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been".
-William Golding
"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. Give her a sperm, she'd give you a baby. Give her a house, she'd give you a home. Give her groceries, she'd give you a meal. Give her a smile, she'd give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges everything given to her. So, if you give her crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit "!
-Anonymous Writer
Remember, this is not a question of equality but a question of equal rights. Is that too hard for the most populous country in Africa? The giant of Africa?
Good article! Well written! I couldn't agree with you more MZ. The mere fact that we need an equality bill for the female kind to exercise their fundamental rights irks me. For purposes of consensual clarity, I will implore you to read carefully below the 1st and 2nd paragraphs of the United States Declaration of Independence...
ReplyDelete"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Even if this is a foreign document to these climes, the application of its contents are universal and you can relate it with our current predicament. I hope you all can read between the lines and see my perspective.
Need I say more?
Erick S. Gray may be your anonymous writer of the "whatever you give her she makes greater" quote.
ReplyDeleteIt is Erick S. Gray.
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