There is something definitely wrong with this Senator. Monday night on Channels TV, he openly argued that, the maturity of a child is determined by her parents.
So poor parents can give away their girl child at any age as long as it fits into their wallets plans and claims she is matured. Right!
And this is someone we deemed fit enough to represent Nigerians in the Senate? WoW!
So basically, he is saying the United Nations stipulated Age limit is wrong and his is right?
This is how WIKIPEDIA defined Age of Majority, Age of Consent and Marriageable Age.
Age of Majority
The age of majority is
the threshold of adulthood as it
is conceptualized (and recognized or declared) in law. It is the chronological
moment when minors cease to legally be
considered children and assume control over their persons, actions, and
decisions, thereby terminating the legal control and legal responsibilities of
their parents or guardian over and for them. Most countries set majority at 18.
Age of majority should not be confused with the age of sexual consent, marriageable age,drinking age, driving age, voting age, etc., which all may sometimes be
independent of, and set at a different age from, the age of majority.
Age of Consent.
The age of consent, a term which rarely actually appears in legal statues is the minimum age of a person with
whom another person is permitted to engage in certain sexual activities though
it sometimes defined as the age at which a person is considered to be legally
competent to consent to sexual acts. The distinguishing aspect of the age of
consent laws is that the person below the minimum age is regarded as the victim
and their sex partner as the offender.
Age of consent laws vary widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and while most jurisdictions set the
age of consent in the range 14 to 18, ages of consent as low as 12 and as high
as 21 exist.
Marriageable Age
Marriageable age (or marriage age) is the age at which a person is allowed by law to marry,
either as a right or subject to parental or other forms of consent. Age and
other prerequisites to marriage vary between jurisdictions, but generally is
set at eighteen. Most jurisdictions allow marriage at a slightly younger age
with parental or judicial approval, and some also allow younger people to marry
if one is pregnant. In many developing countries, the official age
prescriptions stand as mere guidelines.
Fifty-five countries are signatories to the Convention on Consent
to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages, which
require them to specify a minimum marriage age by statute law‚ thus overriding
customary, religious, and tribal laws. When the marriageable age under a law of
a religious community is lower
than that under the law of the land the state law prevails. However, some religious
communities do not accept the supremacy of state law in this respect, which
leads to child marriage or forced marriage.
So what Yerima did with his child bride from Egypt was actually forced marriage. In Egypt he would have been arrested but sadly in Nigeria, he is been celebrated.
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