Thursday, 18 July 2013

The new Nigeria law possibly promoting Paedophilia?

 The Nigeria Senate on Tuesday July 16th pegged the official marriage age at 18 when they amended the constitution. Then former Zamfara governor, now senator, Sani Yerima, who married a 13 year old Egyptian girl in 2010, opposed the age restrictions saying it was anti Islam. For some reason the Senate agreed with him and made an about turn.

The Senate has now deleted the age restriction from the new constitution, leaving marriage age for women open. They stated that 'a woman is deemed "Full of age" once she is married irrespective of the age she did so.'

This therefore means that the new law allows the marriage of under aged girls, smh! And it's 14yrs imprisonment for two consenting adults, tho I've not accepted gay marriage. What do you think?

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