FIGHT AGAINST CHILD MARRIAGE: Senator Ahmed Yerima Replies His Critics

Dear Mr Senator, Why then do some of them end up committing suicide? Are you aware that there are health challenges that follow early sex and pregnancy? And even if they give their consent, how sure are we it was not given under duress? If you want to help someone in need, there are other ways to do that, why choose a child bride? And please it became our business when you decided to make it a law and now Nigeria has another problem to her uncountable ones, created by you. First you say it's not our business, next you say it should worry us. Welcome to 21st century Senator, early marriage will not put a stop to being promiscuous if anyone chooses to. I got 99 questions for you and religion ain't one. Read his reply after the cut

''Nigeria has many uncountable problems and none of them is early marriage.  As a matter of fact, early marriage the solution to about half of our problems. 

For those who wonder if I can give my daughter(s) out in marriage at the age of 9 or 13, I tell you most honestly, I can give her out at the age of 6 if I want to and its not your business. 

This is because I am a Muslim and I follow the example of the best of mankind, Muhammad ﺻَﻠَّﻰ ﺍﻟﻠَّﻪُ ﻋَﻠَﻴْﻪِ ﻭَﺳَﻠَّﻢَ . 

In Islam, marriage is not only about sex, it is about family and helping one another in achieving their goals, which is the attainment of Paradise. 

In Islam, a girl can be given out in marriage as early as 6 years old, but consummation of the marriage can only be done when the girl becomes physically mature and she gives her consent to it because unlike English law, it is not permissible for a man To Molest his wife in Shari'ah Law. 

So what can anybody tell me? 

~ I live in a city where young girls at the age of 12 have already became serial fornicators and cannot count the number of man they've Were Intimate with. 

~ I live in a City where primary school children disvirgin themselves behind toilets on Valentine day. 

~ I live in a city where young girls flood the street at night looking for men that would give them N500 to Be Intimate with them. 

~ I live in a city where parents send their daughters out overseas to prostitute and send dollars down. 

~ I live in a City where Government officials pick undergraduates from University car parks with Coastal Buses to wild sex parties. 

~ I live in a city where abortion is so common that even a Chemist shop owner can perform abortion with just N2,500. 

These are your daughters, and this should worry you and not Yerima's private matters. So ask me again why I support early marriage and I will slap the Jinn out of your head''. 

 Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima