Why these cries in the land of sex?, By Semiu Okanlawon

And which takes me to the mother of the Chrisland School girl in question. As pitiable as the situation her family has found themselves, I am of the opinion that she won’t go far if the case she desires to press is rape. I am yet to see any major argument in support of her conclusion that her daughter was an unwilling actor in that show of shame with the video that millions have watched and would still watch.
A teenager alleged to be running online ‘business’ bordering on such sleazy affairs, with personal clips that show her proclivity for sexual contents, has already put a question mark on her parents’ capacity for monitoring and care.
Consequently, her mother’s video asking Nigerians and the government to help is a sentiment dead on arrival. This is because by virtue of what most Nigerians have seen, there stands a general belief that the teenager is far deeper and advanced in her choices than the parents are willing to admit. And the same argument goes for the boy(s) in the entire show.
We are a religious lot. But hardly do we pay attention to the dictates of our faiths. In Islam that I am familiar with, even siblings of opposite genders are advised strongly to be separated at certain ages and the rationale is not far from prevention of the unthinkable.
Those scriptural prescriptions could therefore not have been of no value when you are enjoined, like in Quran Chapter 24 Verse 30-31.

It reads, “Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and to be mindful of their chastity: this will be most conducive to their purity – (and), verily, Allah is aware of all that they do. And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and to be mindful of their chastity, and not to display their charms beyond what may be apparent thereof; hence let them draw their veils over their bosoms and do not show their adornments except to their husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers or their sons or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or their sisters’ sons or their women or what their right hands possess or male servants free of sexual desires or those children who never know the private things of women; and do not stamp their feet so that it may show their hidden adornments; and repent towards God collectively O believers so that you may succeed.”

And the tragedy is this: Not even this scandalous revelation would change anything. The government and the police would make a show of this saga for a few weeks and move on to other scandals. Many of the parents who have screamed (pretentiously too) at this would not withdraw into the closets to probe what is happening under their roofs.
But when the next alarm bell sounds, all of us would scream again as if the evils we are planning would go away with such routine.
Semiu Okanlawon, media strategist and CEO, Proumou Media, Lagos is also the Publisher of NPO Reports.

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