Standing5:
Common sense is dead in that North oh. So rape in south justifies abduction of minors from south.

no mind d small boy. they will defend child marrige at all cost becos it is part of their religious duties.

ItsMeAboki:


Didn't you read where the Emir directed for the matter to be handed over to the state police AIG; including a copy of the same orders released to the press as evidence of his non complicity; how does that amount to shielding of any body - why must you and your ilk continue to expose your ignorance and embarrassingly mental laziness to comprehend?

Don't even waste your time, the person behind that moniker is an unrepentant ethnic and religious bigot who sees nothing good in northerners and muslims.

dTruth101:
Southern christians are congenital devils

Sorry, this isn't part of the essence of the thread. Killing that blanket prejudice is what it seeks.

There are black sheep in both religions and regions and the last time we checked, no one has carried out an head count of these "devils".

I am half South South and half North Central and a Christian, and I am not a devil.

drss:
no mind d small boy. they will defend child marrige at all cost becos it is part of their religious duties.

You people are rather the kids around here who can hardly look beyond their noses, tripping over the same stone a million times a day. Anyone who refuses to embrace your sermon of hate against the Northerners automatically becomes a Northerner and a Muslim.

How pathetic.

I have always said it to anyone who cares to listen: the Nigerian brand of Christianity and crime are as inseparable as 5 and 6. Just take a look at how shameless some of their religious leaders are, how quick their hypocrite zombie followers were in castigating that small hausa boy and his religion. i say show me a Nigerian Christian and you show me a dictionary definition of a hypocrite

I wonder why topics like this hardly make front page. We need such to revive the debate nature of nairaland.

being persecuted does not neccessarily mean that you are bad, upholders of truth are always persecuted, the prophets of God Almighty were all persecuted by their people, if i am being persecuted for being a northerner and a muslim then i'm fine with it, i guess its the price for upholding the truth.

Progressive01:
You people are rather the kids around here who can hardly look beyond their noses, tripping over the same stone a million times a day. Anyone who refuses to embrace your sermon of hate against the Northerners automatically becomes a Northerner and a Muslim.

How pathetic.

d sooner u realise dat child marriage is blessed in d north d better for u.

Sharia Council Defends Senator's Child Marriage.
The Registered Trustees of Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria
has dragged to an Abuja High Court on the controversy
surrounding the marriage of Senator Ahmed Yerima to an
Egyptian 13 year old.
read more...

http://www.allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00011387.html

drss:

d sooner u realise dat child marriage is blessed in d north d better for u.

allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00011387.html

i guess its better to have children outside wedlock, or being a grandmother at age 30 outside wedlock

Nigeria CAN NEVER BE ONE This OP mentality shows how someone justify criminality by comparism

Some christians on Nairaland are So STEEWPID...Quote me and I know you are one of them

i never really gave much fucck about the story though

Progressive01:
Questions 5 and 6 are meant for your type.

NO RIGHT THINKING HUMAN WOULD SUPPORT RA PE, AS A CHRISTIAN I CONDEMN ANY ACT OF RA PE. ITS AGAINST MY RELIGIOUS STAND, UNLIKE OUR MUSLIM BROTHERS THAT SEES NOTHING WRONG WITH RA PING A CHILD.

Is this op mad? Why is he trying to rationalise and equate the kidnap and forceful marriage of ese with a rape case in ebonyi? He must be high on something

fatymore:
Some christians on Nairaland are So STEEWPID...Quote me and I know you are one of them

WE NOT STEEWPID, WE CONDEMN SUCH ACTS INSTEAD YOUR 'FATE' GLORIFIES IT

I don't understand how you northerners think honestly.
RAPE OF MINORS HAPPENS EVERYWHERE!!!
HERE IN THE SOUTH SUCH ACT IS CONDEMNED BUT IN THE NORTH IT'S NORMAL THAT'S WHY YOU PEOPLE MARRY OUT YOUR DAUGHTERS AT THE AGE OF 8!

NO ONE IN THE SOUTH DOSE THAT NOT EVEN IN THE DAYS OF OLD!
SO PLEASE TELL ME WHERE IS THE HYPOCRISY?

THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH ON THIS ISSUE.

OZAOEKPE:

WE NOT STEEWPID, WE CONDEMN SUCH ACTS INSTEAD YOUR 'FATE' GLORIFIES IT

I don't glorify bad acts..but some you people wil never say d truth..if a muslim does something you attribute it to Islam but christians..you won't ascribe it to christianity....

Oluwaooooo. See tori as e long. Boiz dey Para for rape sha

fatymore:
Some christians on Nairaland are So STEEWPID...Quote me and I know you are one of them

Do u see any of us Christians applauding the act of rape of this young girl the way you muslims applauded the abduction of ese by a fellow muslims?
It is you muslims who are steewpid!

These Northern **** again..

Ese was abducted, raped, impregnated and forcefully converted to a cancerous religion of piss.
As if that wasn't enough, the Emir harbored a kidnap victim and impeded the arrest the culprit.

The Ebonyi case is a gang-rape which we all know is a crime and are not shielding the culprits like the idiootic and scarf-tying dolt in Kano.

Pointful and pointless at the same time.

OZAOEKPE:

NO RIGHT THINKING HUMAN WOULD SUPPORT RA PE, AS A CHRISTIAN I CONDEMN ANY ACT OF RA PE. ITS AGAINST MY RELIGIOUS STAND, UNLIKE OUR MUSLIM BROTHERS THAT SEES NOTHING WRONG WITH RA PING A CHILD.

What have you been smoking of late

Progressive01:
I bet you didn't see this:

Rid yourself of hate. It's killing you slowly.

Is bail now a crime?

Ecoterrorist:
Didnt you see where the culprits were brought to book and not shielded by one Igwe or Emir.



Continue to shoot yourself in the foot trying to defend that stoooopid Yunusa abd the lazy and senile emir

Not shielded by igwe can't you read for God sake Who bail the culprits

Progressive01:
Good evening.

Before leaving the office this evening, I decided to do a once over on the front page of the forum (as I mostly just keep refreshing the politics section for updates) and saw a news item that caught my interest: Newtelegraph reported a case of a girl that died of injuries she sustained after being gang raped by six boys.

From the report, there were two victims but so far, only one has died. I Hope and pray the other makes it to full recovery.

The unfortunate and barbaric incident took place in Onicha Igboeze in Onicha LGA of Ebonyi state, South East Nigeria

Four suspects were said to have been remanded at the federal prison, Abakaliki; while the other two were granted bail at the behest of one Chief Ogbonnaya Okereke.

For convenience purposes, let's call the victim Amaka. (apologies to all the Amakas in the house).

Digest the preamble above as I introduce miss Ese Oruru.

The person Ese Oruru actually needs no introduction on this forum, and perhaps, across Nigeria. Governors, traditional rulers, ministers, police chiefs, senators, civil rights activists, political party bigwigs, mainstream media, religious leaders, legal luminaries, Nobel prize winners, educational heavyweights, and the ordinary man on the street are all familiar with the name Ese Rita Oruru. She rivals the famous Olajumoke in (un)popularity and had what she was associated with a thing of pride, perhaps she would have been the brand ambassador of countless brands across the country today.

Hers was a story of an alleged 13 year old Bayelsan kidnapped and forcefully married and converted to Islam by one Yunusa Yellow, a NORTHERNER

The story of Ese Oruru took the media by storm and literally BROKE THE INTERNET!! The social media, from facebook to twitter, was on fire for days on end as Nigerians were held spellbound by the unbelievably barbaric act of Yunusa Yellow, Ese's alleged boyfriend.

Nairaland of course wasn't left out of the orgy!! Google the words "ese oruru nairaland" and you'd be awe struck at the sheer number of threads that were created on account of that incident! Of course that was expected as nothing gets the forum in a frenzy more than a story of an alleged abuse of a Southerner by a Northerner, or a Christian by a Muslim!

Threads about the incident hurriedly made the front page and run several pages before losing steam- all after commentators must have taken turns to abuse Muslims and Northerners generally. These group of people seem defenceless on the forum and perhaps social media generally since they are not as internet savvy and social media inclined as people from other parts of the country.

At the receiving end of the relentless attacks were:

1. Mr President; his crime being that he's also a Northerner and a Muslim.

2. Emir of Kano whose offence is same as that of Mr President.

Some stretched their hate to their elastic limits as the accuse the president of personally sanctioning the incident since he's a "paedophile" as he also married Aisha "at the age of 13!!"

The attacks went on for days unabated culminating in a threat by Senator Ben Bruce to sue the IGP to the ICC! Abati also arrived the scene to take his own pound of flesh!! Femi Fani Kayode of course also took his share as he could not be left out of the fist fest, moreso, it was right down his alley!!!

Now folks, fast forward a week after, news breaks of a SOUTHERN teenager raped to death by SOUTHERNERS and social media and Nairaland is as quiet as a King Tut's Tomb!!

Why is this so Nigerians??!!

1. Is Ese's life worth more than that of the girl that was brutally raped to death??

2. Are the dramatis personae involved in a crime of this nature supposed to determine the level of press/general coverage/attention it receives?? Would the offence have been more criminal had the rapists come from another region or belong to another religion??

3. Is this the first time a crime of this nature is happening in this part of the country?? Why are they usually undereported?? Whose purpose is the press serving??

4. Following from the logic of the Ese Oruru's commentators, would it be appropriate if one tagged Christians or South Easterners as child rapists and murderers owing to the crime of six folks out of millions??

5. Was the case for Ese borne out of altruism and sheer concern for her welfare or was it more about POLITICS??

6. Would things stand where they are as regards the Ebonyi incident had it been reported the name of one of the culprits is Adamu??

Mull over these while I take a sip of water... Brb.

Back..

Now, as much as we can, we always try to pass ourselves off as modern, civilised and intelligent folks with unrivalled knowledge about the essence of humanity, and more often than not, in the course of doing so, the underbelly of our disdain for civility is revealed; ironic one would say.

Here's what I'm talking about: what Yunusa did was unacceptable in all ramifications and ought to be condemned by any right thinking human- but in doing this, some people, a good number, revealed their potential to do a lot worse than Yunusa could ever dream of doing. They literally forgot about the culprit and aimed the barrel of their cannons right at the heart of Northerners and Muslims generally! Some said they should be nuked and completely vaporised off the surface of the earth, that it is the panacea to world peace- these astonishing propositions put forward by supposed Christians who should know better!

Ese lives, Amaka is dead, but Yunusa's crime seems to surpass that of the Ebonyi Six. How convenient!

This type of scenario has been playing out since God-knows-when.

Let me digress a little at this point to share another nauseating instance of this double standard/hypocrisy.

Few hours ago, someone created a thread regarding the Senators who killed the Women's Rights Bill in the Senate. I don't know how reliable the news is but the op mentioned some Senators that supported the bill and three who didn't. Out of the three, two were presumably Muslims (from their names) while one was a Christian who sited a verse in the Bible to justify his stance against the bill.

Predictably when some people arrived the scene to comment, they completely ignored the Christian Senator and the reason put forward by him for his position and attacked the "almajiri Senators", inundating the thread with just about enough insults to knock the lights out a heavyweight boxer.

They became selectively oblivious to events of the recent past involving the Enugu state house of assembly where a similar bill was killed just the same way leaving one to ask: how many Northern almajiri honourables are present in Enugu SHoA that they succeeded in killing such a wonderful bill??

Mull over that for a moment reader...

Now tell us fellas, why have we chosen to turn the Northerners/Muslims into our preferred bogeymen and e-punching bags?? Exactly what crime did the North commit?? Since when did we jettison our democratic level tolerance for ethnoreligious diversity??

Politics is a game, and as such, must always have winners and losers. A people have an inalienable prerogative to vote whoever they think could best advance their course and interests; the Northerners saw that man in Buhari and the South Easterners and South Southerners saw the person in Jonathan. Each people threw their weight behind their preferred candidate and fate smiled on the former- how difficult is that to accept

Many a great democracy were built on such incidences of shift of power from a political party with time as it addresses mediocrity and dictatorship. It is in the best interest of those who lost to go back to the drawing board and realign their strategy. Take your defeat in your stride, learn from your mistakes, and take another shot at your goal- what comes of it would be anybody's guess.

As it stands today, Ese and Amaka's cases would, for a long time to come, remain a dark reminder of our hypocrisy as a people. They would remind us of how morally depraved we've become all in the name of politics.

The Abatis, FFKs and Muray Bruces of this world would remain completely mute over this as talking about it and condemning the culprits and the region from whence they come wouldn't do their political base any good. They all thrive on the hatred and mundane prejudices they've sown in our hearts, through their utterances, which we sometimes express indeliberately- meaning they've become a part of our character!

We must strive to exorcise that spirit of hate and kill it, lest it kills us all.

Remember:

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.- Charles de Secondat.


Good night.

@OP, do you have sense at all? South belong to Southerners, while we don't want anything North associating with our girls. Take your hypocricy to somewhere else. Rape is bad and those guys should be hanged,but they are all from the same tribe and same religion.

Let me add another clear bias..

Ese Oruru: As far as I am concerned was not abducted at Gunpoint or Kidnapped. She ran away from home and went to live with her Abokey lover in the North where she got pregnant and coverted to Islam.

The Dead girl and the other Girls were raped.. They didnt go to visit their boyfriends and got raped. They were attacked in their homes and violated.


There is an obvious difference in these two matters..

But because of the Islam undertone of Ese Oruru's case, everybody has got an erectio-n. The have called for the hanging of Yinusa Yellow. Tunde MadMan Bakare called for his diick to be cut off. All our champion advocates jumped on the matter and were ready to wage war and bring the nation to a stand still. Even the Emir Sanusi was insulted and called names despite the obvious fact that his involvement was minimal and that he ordered that she be returned to her parents.


But in the Ebonyi case of "Amaka", everybody seems to be chilled. Yes its annoying but atleast they were not raped by Muslims or Gay People (Because the only thing that Gets Nigerians going is Islam and Homosexuality). The Chief Ogbonnaya that bailed some of the Perps have not received and any flak whasoever, but Sanusi who instructed that Ese be returned to her people was cursed out for days..

Lets not stop there.. last week on this same Nairaland, A 56 year old Father raped his 10 year old daughter.. The reaction on the thread did not carry the same level of venom the Ese case carried. But imagine the story read 56 year old Muslim Man marries 10 year old bride.. Niggas would get into the street with placards.

Just a few days back (yesterday), a 35 year Old Man (Pastor) rapes his 13 year old househelp with a candle.. Yes people reacted, but it was not as bad because it was not a muslim Alfa that was involved.



I have said it that they should just give those Rapist their 6 Months to 2 years sentences and set them free. That is the law of the jungle we live in. A Nation so bigoted and blinded by their hate for things that actually have no bearing whatsoever on their lives.

Nigerians know how to channel their hate towards the wrongest of directions.





Progressive01 Please dont bother.. The next thing is they will attack you and make you the new enemy. Nigerians are not interested in the message but the messenger. As far as they are concerned, its North vs. the rest or Islam vs Christians.

What's the OP's angst? That a woman whose daughter was abducted and forcefully married by one Yenusa through sharia council, and restricting her access to her daughter that gave rise to public outrage and condemnation isn't bad compared to a case of rape in Ebonyi state? Or the attack on islam supportive of the aforementioned by christians on new media?


I think the only reason why we had public uproar on yunusa's case was because the girl is kept in the dark even while her mum took the matter to relevant authorities in the nick of time and notin was done untill the matter arrived on new media. This is where i blamed Sanusi. He was an accomplice having sanctioned the girl's sustenance in his own palace.

As for what happened in ebonyi state, the culprits are already cooling off in prison. So there shudnt be much noise about that cos relevant authorities swung into action on time.

who told u that southerns are tru xtians whether rape or forceful marriage is it not the same sin. I like the write up it shows that some people are thinking rite not the clueless and bias tribe who are not ready to accept their defeat.

I blame buhari for not getting you jobs.

Nairalanders and tribalism.
Tufiaaaa