Baba Ijesha: What Yoruba Nollywood owes us - Punch Newspapers

Since the news of alleged child sexual exploitation by popular actor, James Olanrewaju Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesha, broke, some Nollywood actors of the Yoruba genre have exchanged insults and rebukes among themselves. I have no wish whatsoever to litigate their differences but hope that this matter would be a wake-up call to realise they have more work to do as cultural ambassadors.

For far too long, sexual relationships have had varied codes in Nigeria. The refusal of 11 states in northern Nigeria to adopt the Child Rights Act of 2003 has left a window open for men with paedophilic instincts to abuse children in the name of religion. In other places through Nigeria, the ignorance of what the law entails and the unwillingness of state officials to even consistently enforce it has allowed paedophiles operate without fear of being apprehended.

First, for all those who think a grown man who touched a child inappropriately was set up, only one thing matters and it is the age of the alleged victim. The ignoramuses with highfalutin opinions on the issue had better absorb this lesson as quickly as possible before they learn the hard way. It does not matter if a minor invites an adult male to her house, removes her clothes, and jumps on him. The onus is still on the adult to extricate himself from the compromised setting.

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Abimbola Adelakun... such a prolific writer. Your view reminds me of one of Adam Sandler's movies - That's My Boy. Nobody cared if it was consensual or not, the teacher cooled her sexual urges in jail for a long time. Yoruba Nollywood., please wake up.

Na now una remember una money.

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