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Nigeria's Last
Virgins!
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
If you are a parent or
grandparent, whose children or grandchildren are
enrolled in Nigerian schools, and you read this article,
and decide that the current attempt by a tiny clique of
clearly depraved minds within the nation’s educational
system, to carefully disrobe Nigerian kids of their
prized innocence and healthy mind and titillate them to
perdition should not attract your unreserved
indignation, conscious action, and, in fact, public
outrage, then, just know that you are not qualified to
answer a parent anymore. In fact, your children and
grandchildren will certainly wake up one day to curse
your memory for watching passively while some desperate
fellows, for totally self-serving reasons, subjected
their tender minds to vile and ungodly lessons that are
carefully and solely designed to make them become
animals in human skins.
A couple of months ago, when
I was shown the topics to be treated under the subject
called “Sexuality Education” or “Sex
Education” which tender children in both junior
and secondary schools in Lagos State are now being
forced to learn, I could not imagine that anyone outside
a mental home could be wicked enough to design a subject
with such insidious contents, even for the kids of his
worst enemy! In fact, as I think about it now, I
consider the introduction of that subject in our schools
the worst case of child abuse – brazenly endorsed by the
nation’s education authorities and unleashed on today’s
kids like a poisonous live snake. What kind of madness
is this?
Mere kids, some as young as
nine and ten, are put in the hands of teachers, who
deploy every energy, talent and creativity to pollute
and saturate their tender minds with every detail about
sexual immorality, masturbation, contraceptives (like
condom and pills), etc.
And like I said here last week, I can imagine how easy
it would become for a teacher who has been targeting a
female student to use his creative elaboration of this
subject, to get the girl so aroused she would become
easy meat. My suspicion is that in many cases, what the
teachers would be giving out would be targeted more at
titillating their tender victims than educating them!
When this matter was debated
on the TV programme,
“Patito’s Gang,”
recently, virtually all the participants wondered why a
few people could take it upon themselves, to gather in
one small room somewhere, and without adequate
consultations with stakeholders, especially parents and
even teachers, design such a vile subject, with
far-reaching implications for the moral health of the
nation. My brother, Reuben
Abati, who moderated the discussions that day
laboured so hard to sell
the lame point about the need “to empower the kids with
information,” so they could be in a position to make
their choices.
As Reuben recycled these
well-worn, uninspiring arguments, I remembered a
particular essay of his in The Guardian of Sunday
of March 3, 2002, entitled, “Mrs.
Atiku’s Search For
Virgins”, where he thoroughly chastised Mrs.
Amina
Titi
Atiku
Abubakar, Vice
President’s wife, for daring to say (in Reuben’s words)
that, “one way of stopping the alarming spread of
HIVAIDS scourge in our
society is for mothers and each and everyone of us to
discourage and avoid premarital sex.”
Reuben sounded so offended by
Mrs. Atiku’s suggestion
that I began to wonder whether there was anything he
stood gain by a possible “deregulation”
of sexual immorality in Nigeria! Well, I began to get a
clear picture of where he was coming from when he
declared: “Mrs. Atiku wants virgins on our streets.
Ah! Does she know the number of businesses that depend
on premarital sex? . . . If Mrs. Atiku had been talking
about safe sex, adolescent sexuality awareness
programmes and general
pubic enlightenment,
that would have been fine. But to say people should
avoid pre-marital sex, is simply revolutionary.”
Yes, Reuben actually said that!
Well, Reuben is not alone in
that camp. A few days after his article appeared in
Nigeria, Mr. Andrew M. Mwenda
published an article in The Monitor
(Uganda’s leading newspaper - March 22, 2002) captioned:
“Sexual Abstinence: Rubbish!” Said
Wwenda in the piece:
“To demand that a girl abstains from sex until she is
married . . . is to impose an unbearable burden on our
daughters.” I should think that Mr.
Wwenda is raising his
voice in support of some “liberated” women who always
feel extremely pained each time the word “virginity” is
mentioned.
For them, such a word was
merely invented by men to subjugate women, since, it is
often used more in relation to women than to men. Now, I
don’t intend this discourse to degenerate to a gender
war, and distract us from the more important issues we
are trying to resolve here. I can only add that any girl
who is swallowing such claptrap
from her “liberated” aunties
should first take a look at them, and ask herself
whether her ambition is to end up like them.
Yes, she should count the
costs, because at the end of the day, reality, that
ultimate unmasker of all
self-deceptions, will discover everyone and hold aloft
in broad daylight the relics of every
misspent youth! Indeed
we deceive ourselves when we try to play down the point
that in any sexual misadventure,
the woman is always at greater risk, and this has to do
more with her peculiar anatomy than societal
conditioning, as some feminists would have us believe.
Wisdom should therefore
dictate that she who faces the greater risk should
exercise the greater caution! I have my suspicions about
the intentions of these anti-virginity amazons. It even
becomes more suspicious when some men, hiding under some
dubious “woman friendly” credentials, also enlist in the
anti-virginity army, especially, as it relates to women.
My take is that before any girl elects to take these men
serious, she should do herself a
favour by pondering the
plain words of David Thomas who once said: “If I were a
woman, I would never trust men who say they are
feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying
to establish credentials, or they think they might be
able to pick more girls. If I were a woman, I would say
[to the men]: go away and have your first period. Then
come back and tell me you are a feminist.”
The reason behind the
introduction of these destructive teachings in our
schools, I am told, is to help children escape teenage
pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, especially
HIV/AIDS. The aim is to
demystify fornication, give it positive image, as
something to be cherished and enjoyed, without any fear,
so long as it is done “safely”. The belief is that with
the age-long “superstition” built around sexual
immorality, a few straying kids tend to do it with fear,
and in the process get into trouble.
But, unfortunately, by
introducing these teachings, these fellows are playing
with fire. The totally naďve confidence they have
invested in the effectiveness of their “safe sex” is not
backed by any facts. In their desperation to introduce
the subject and rake in millions of
naira from the books
already written and printed on it, they forgot to
consider the consequences of their actions – a fallout
this nation may never recover from. It is a fact that
these teachings have been introduced in both the United
States and Britain for several years now.
| As I write
now, I have before me, a
BBC report
saying that Britain has the highest record
of teenage pregnancy in the whole of Western
Europe. Also, another report has it that the
United States has the highest number of
teenage pregnancies in the Western world.
Again, in the United States, where years of
successful and effective campaign for the
use of condom
has yielded massive attitudinal change in
favour of
condom use,
new infections of HIV are still on the
increase. Why is Nigeria always eager to
import programmes
and policies that have failed in other
nations? Just why?
The point we must
note is that what these teachings have done,
and are still doing, is to excite immoral
curiosities in those kids and push them into
more dangerous adventures. |
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Try and interview the
teachers who teach this vile subject and be shocked by
their narration of the vulgar excitement it produces in
the nine and ten year-old babies on whom it is presently
being inflicted. Ask the teachers, especially the
mothers and fathers among them, whether they sincerely
believe this subject would be in the best interest of
the pupils!
Where is this nation really
heading to? How do we expect children to still
concentrate on their studies when we saturate them with
filthy teachings that only pollute their minds with
lusts. As the nation encourages these babies to start
having “sin-partners” at nine and ten, and indulging in
“safe” unrestrained sex, what type of future leaders do
we expect them to become? After “empowering” them to go
on rampage and experiment with “safe” indiscriminate sex
or masturbation at will, wouldn’t
we have succeeded in giving them a virus deadlier than
AIDS? Every decent minded person in this country should
rise in fierce condemnation of this desperation to give
our children enough light to light them to damnation. He
must enlist in the coming big battle to eliminate this
unambiguous satanic script from our school system.
By the way, what is all this
fetish about “safe” sex? Is there anything like that?
Already, a lot of studies and findings have effectively
punctured the dubious confidence that AIDS campaigners
have for self-serving reasons built on
condom. We know that
when reduced to a very micro level, several objects,
especially rubber and plastics, have tiny holes through
which very minute micro organisms could pass. I read
somewhere recently that “HIV
virus is only 0.1 micron in size while the naturally
occurring holes in a latex
condom is of the order 5 to 50 microns in
diameter.”
Indeed,
HIV is 500 times smaller
than spermatozoa, yet research has established that
spermatozoa are able to sometimes pass through the wall
of a latex condom and
cause pregnancy. Then tell me what happens with
HIV? The example cited
earlier of the worrisome rise in fresh infections of
HIV in a place like the
US despite the success of
condom-use campaign would serve to buttress this
point.
So we better rouse ourselves
from this lethal sleep and halt this brazen assault on
public morality in the guise of protection of kids. Who
knows who is inspiring this campaign? It is instructive
that The Guardian on Sunday, July 18,
1999, carried a report that a cross section of American
college (mostly female) students are regretting the
limitless freedom their parents had taught them and are
now pursuing a “no-sex” campaign. But in Nigeria in
2006, sex has been deregulated
and democratized. What an abomination!
Right now, a serious regret
is also seriously soaking the consciousness of the
Western world, because of the moral wreck their children
have become. But they are now helpless, because, it
seems to have become too late, and things have got out
of hand. They now wish they never gave a silly
interpretation to freedom in their society at some point
in their history and saved their children from becoming
a little better than animals.
But poor
Nigerians, we are
distinguished by our peculiar knack to gobble up
everything Western, no matter how rotten. Go to the
scummy pond called
Nollywood, and ask them
why they are going so wild and immoral, and the answer
you will get is: That is how they do it in Hollywood.
See what I mean?
But the question to ask is:
to what extent should the state interfere in my life and
family? Where does the state derive the authority to
invade my home with pernicious teachings, and inflict
them on my kids, just because I gave them my kid to
educate in their schools? How I am sure that those who
designed this subject are not moral wrecks themselves,
who have a mission to poison society, and make everyone
become like them? Must the state empower them to ruin
the nation’s kids? I know Reuben has already hinted us
about the commercial consideration in the project, but
must they prosper at the expense of all we hold dear?
Indeed, I sincerely think the
state has over-stepped its bounds, and must therefore be
challenged. They can’t take over the roles, which only
parents can perform well. If you want your children to
become animals, gather them inside the (dis)comfort
of your home and teach them all the techniques of
creative sexual immorality. Don’t hide under the cover
of the state spread such a
Euro-brewed pollution to other homes. You cannot
claim to love the children of others more than the
parents that gave birth to them.
I have
made up my mind to oppose this surreptitious attempt by
the state to teach my children what a few fellows
gathered somewhere and formulated, which I consider very
unhealthy for them. I don’t care what anyone says, or if
I am called primitive, but I am totally and wholly
against any attempt by anyone to pollute the minds of
today’s youths and turn them to moral wrecks. For me,
the struggle against this vile and obnoxious policy is
just about to begin.
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Related articles by the same author on the same subject:
1.
http://www.independentngonline.com/news/72/ARTICLE/11553/2006-09-20.html
2.
http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/articles/454/1/Campaigns-Deadlier-Than-
AIDS.html
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Ugochukwu
Ejinkeonye
is a Columnist/Member, Editorial Board,
Independent (www.independentngonline.com )Newspapers,
Lagos. Email:
scruples2006@yahoo.com
posted 28 September 2006 |
