with painted faces and bleeding machetes. It is the surgery of the cavern that Governor Nasir El-Rufai has promulgated into policy by signing a law to castrate rapists. Castration casts us back to the Dark Age.
On that score, this paper made the rape victim the person of the year. The nation is one sprawling land of erotic failures. Bedrooms swoon for the wrong reasons; so also classrooms, pulpits, uncompleted buildings, hospitals. Bare floors in offices. Markets on the quiet. The leafy security of roadside bushes.
The consequences are palpable. A girl’s supreme pride is punctured for life. No self-esteem. Pregnancy without fathers. Weddings cancelled for life, a life of scandal. A culture of impunity enshrined. Those the law covers usually commit the offence once or twice. The child brides are kept in sexual servitude for life. The man says he loves them when the girl is not prepared both in flesh and heart to comprehend love as a concept or even marriage as an institution. The Nobel Prize-winning novel Lolita explores how a young girl can be debauched even in an western milieu. So with the Kaduna law, we condemn criminal rape, but celebrate institutional rape.
We cannot respect the woman until we respect the girl. That is at the bottom of the story. The threat to the chaste is not only the rake, but the law. If the law is savage, it cannot be above the society. Laws have for centuries canonised barbarism. Laws have loved caning even in modern times. We know that the guillotine did not end with the French. I raised a little hubbub in Colorado years ago when I wrote against the death penalty. I had spoken to the victim minutes before he expired.
Nobody was expecting prez Buhari to use ''Federal Might'' to win Edo, but we want him to put APC in shape by weeding out the saboteurs within which he knows & monitor INEC & her conniving NGOs. Is that too much to expect?
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