Who is Sexualizing Our Children?
Destruction of the family may lead to economic failure. Therefore the family institution should be reinvigorated. As I earlier said, we must begin to parent the parents. How? By organizing family orientation courses for parents to enable them to become capable of parenting their own children to be responsible citizens. Another way is by organizing marriage courses for would-be parents and for young people who are about to get married. Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) otherwise called sex education or Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Right or Family Life Education or teen-sex education should be banned in Nigerian schools
The sex scandal involving a 10-year old girl and a boy, both students of ChrislandSchools,VictoriaGarden, Lekki, Lagos during the recentlyconcluded World School Games in Dubai,hasonceagainbroughttothe forethevexedissueofsexualization ofNigerianpre-teens,teens,teenagersandyoung school pupils especially pupils in primary and secondaryschools.Thestrikinglamentableaspectof theChrislandSchools sexscandalisthatwhilethe 10-year old girl and the boy were busy engaging in immoral sex, the onlookers who happened to be theirschoolmateswherebusyvideoingthesexual perversityandpostingitonsocialmedia.Yousee, wenowliveinanageinwhichpublicshameandsense ofguilthavecompletelyevaporatedfromthebeing of so many people including pre-teens and teens.
It is important to note however that sexual perversity is not the exclusive preserve of Chrisland Schools:italsooccursinothersecondaryschoolsin Nigeria.OtherNigeriansecondaryschoolstudents are also implicated in sexual perversity. So, no need making Chrisland schools an escape goat. You will recall that in 2017 some senior students ofIretiGrammarSchool,Falomo,South-WestIkoyi, Lagos,whohadfinishedtheirexamsdecidedthat the best to celebrate it was to gang rape the girls from a nearby school called Falomo Senior High School,Ikoyi,Lagos.Oneoftheeye-witnessesstated thatafterchasingthegirlsandsuccessfullycatching up with them, the Ireti Grammar School boys forcefully used scissors to rip off the girls’ skirts beforecommencingtheirgang-rape.Whatfurther shockedtheeye-witnesswasthatasthedifferent gang-rapesweresimultaneouslygoingoninbroad day light of course, the passers-by and onlookers who had gathered and besieged the rapists and their girl-victims did not deem it fit to rescue the girl-victimsfromtherapists.Insteadtheywerebusy laughing and applauding the rapists and videoing the rape incident.
In the past, the friendly relationship between boyfriends and girlfriends could attain maturity with the exchange of love letters. A boyfriend or a girlfriendengaginginsexualpromiscuityhidaway from their parents, the public and the law. Today things have fallen apart. All the sexual mores’ boundaries have been obliterated to the extent that sexual promiscuity is now glamourized even infrontofthecameraastheanimalsintheTVReality Show called BBNaija do. In today’s Nigeria, adults including governments and parents bombard Nigerianpre-teens,teenagersandyoungadultswith “safe-sex”or“condom-safe-sex”advertswiththe tragicallymisguidedbeliefthatsexualpromiscuity makethemgoodandthattheresultantpregnancy could be aborted.
Theampleevidenceofsexualizationofourchildren could be gathered on TV, in music videos, in movies,onmobilephonesandontheinternet.Atevery turn—TV,music,movies,mobilephones,internet, publiceducation—youngpeopleareencouragedto indulgeinsexualperversity,inallofitsbarbaricforms, with no fear of pregnancy because if a pregnancy doesoccur,abortionissoldasasafe,easyandpainless way to rid them of the unwanted “product of conception.”Yousee,everyonegetsmoralityright when it concerns stealing of government money, the official corruption reigning supreme in Buhari government, fighting insecurity by arresting and prosecutionofterrorists,banditsandkidnappers andsoforth,butwhenitcomestosexualmattersor watchingofBBNaijapornwhereourhumanfleshis weak,wetendtoremoveourmoralthinkingcapand replaceitwithourimmoralthinkingcapinorderto give free rein to the demands of our sinful bodies.
ItisnotsurprisingthatsomeofustrytorationalizeBBNaijapornandsexualizationofourchildren. Manisweak.Sexsells.SincetheFall,manhasbeen inclined to sexual promiscuity. Besides, we live in a perverse world that lays claim to the soul of our children. We live in a sexual State. The State which ought to be the guardian of the morals of children now sexualizes our children. Why? Because the State argues that pre-marital sex or casual sex makes children feel good and consequently any parent or anybody depriving children of casual sex is infringing on their “right” to have casual sex.
In order to facilitate the quick sexualisation of
our children and school pupils, the State has introducedintotheschoolcurriculatextbooks and Literature in English books containing lewd subject-matters to give the unsuspecting young school pupils the wrong impression thatself-controlisunnecessary,repressiveand an impossibility; that casual sex makes them feelgood;thattheyshouldengageincasualsex before marriage; that ‘safe sex’ is what to aim forinlifeprovidedthattheydon’tgetpregnant. Andiftheydogetpregnanttheyshouldprocure abortion as soon as possible.
Acting on a tip off two years ago, the Police raidedaclinicinLagosforabortingunder-aged Nigeriangirls(agedbetween13-18)andinjecting themwithdangerousabortificientswithoutthe consentoftheirparents.Thepolicerecovered someinjectionsandmedicalequipmentusedin aborting girls which included Manual Vacuum Aspirator.Unfortunatelytoday,MarieStopes hasbribeditswayandhasreopenedtocontinue to abort Nigerian under-aged girls.
TheUnitedNationsPopulationFunds(UNFPA) needs no introduction in Nigeria. For decades, the UNFPA has been sexualizing Nigeria girls and women. Specifically, in 2014, the UNFPA organizedwhatitdubbedthethirdFamilyPlanningPre-ConferencewhichwasheldattheReiz
ContinentalHotel,Abuja.AtthatConference,the UNFPAlaunchedacondom-safe-sexcampaign entitled,“NoHoodieNoHoney”.Thiscampaign waswidelyreportedintheNigerianmedia.The campaignwasalsopostedonTwitter,Facebook and on other social media.
ThecampaignwastargetedatyoungNigerian girlsintheagebracketof14-18.Thecampaignwas aimedatsupplyingcondomsandcontraceptives totheseyoungNigeriangirlsandconvincingthem that“safe-sex”istheirrightandthereforethey shouldn’tbeashamedtopractice“safesex”even if the different Nigerian cultures and religions teachotherwise.Forexample,oneoftheinscriptionsontheNoHoodieNoHoneyroll-upstand postedonTwitterread:“Letspushforeasyaccess to the female condom and that a woman may buycondomswithoutbeingshamed”First:the campaignwastaintedbyfraudanddeception.
Whilescientificevidenceconsistentlyshows that the condoms, which contain naturallyoccurringholes,donotprotectitsuseragainst infections and against HIV and rarely protect against unwanted pregnancy, the UNFPA fraudulently masquerades about the cities of NigeriaandgivingtheNigerianyouthsthefalse hopethatcondomsprotectfromanymisdeed. ThisisveryirresponsibleoftheUNFPA.Atthe same time, the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Inc., Bill & MelindaGatesFoundationandtheChildren’sInvestment Fund Foundation (CIFF) rolled out in Nigeria and other African countries one-dollar injectable contraceptives called Sayana press injectable. Sayanapressisself-injectableabortifacient.They giveittoNigerianschoolgirlssothattheycaninject themselveswithitandindulgein“safe-sex”anyway they like without getting pregnant.
About16yearsago,anNGOcalledtheConcerned MothersAssociation,Lagos,tooktheLagosState governmenttotheFederalHighCourt,Lagosoverthe sexualizationoftheIntegratedSciencecurriculum toincludethetechniquesofkissing,masturbation, breastenlargement,abortionetc.Iwasoneofthe lawyerswhoappearedfortheConcernedMothersin thatsuit.TheleadcounselinthesuitwasMrs.Sylvia SinabaSAN(ofblessedmemory).Irememberthat whenthesuitcameupforhearingbeforethejudge whohappenedtobeafemale,shewascompletely stunned by the sexualization pleaded on the writ andStatementofClaim.Inhershock,shefirsttook upthewrit,helditupmomentarilyinherrighthand andqueried,“Whatisthis?”.Silenceenvelopedthe courtroom. Anyway, to cut the long judicial story short, the matter was amicably resolved out of court. In the spirit of amicable settlement, the Lagos State government at that time yanked off the offensive portion of the Integrated Science curriculum although I suspect that by now it has been brought back into the curriculum.
BetweenfromMarch27to292017,Iattendeda ConferencewhichtookplaceattheNigerianInstitute ofInternationalAffairs,VictoriaIsland,Lagos,.Oneof theSpeakersatthatConferencewasAhmedAkanbi, aMuslimparentandaLagos-basedlegalpractitioner. Midwayinhispresentation,Ahmeddidsomething whichshockedmostoftheConferenceattendees. Hecarefullydippedhishandsintohishandbagand broughtouttwoEnglishliteraturebookscontaining some lewd subject-matters and showed them to the audience. He told us that the two books were recommended books for primary six pupils in the primaryschoolattendedbyhisdaughter.Thetitle of the first book authored by Oyekunle Oyedeji is: Tears of a bride, while the second book written by QueenO.Okweshinebearsthetitle:PreciousChild.
According to Ahmed, his 9-year old daughter in Primary 6 came back home from school one day andengagedhiminaconversationthatbotheredon somesexexperiences.Atfirst,Ahmedwasutterly stunned that his 9 year old daughter was conversant with sex matters. But after he had regained his composure he asked his daughter where she learned about those sex experiences. It was then thathisdaughteropenedhermouthandnarrated tohimhowtheirschoolteacherhasbeenusingthe aforesaidtwobookstoteachthemhowtopractice “safesex”andhowtogainsexualpleasure.Ahmed readtothehearingoftheparticipantssomesexy portions of the two books. The participants rose to their feet in utter shock.
Themosttragicistheintroductionoftheso-called ComprehensiveSexualityEducation(CSE)otherwise calledsexeducationorAdolescentSexualReproductiveRightorFamilyLifeEducationorteen-sex educationinNigerianschoolswithouttheconsentof parentsandstakeholdersineducation.AsIscribble this, I have in front of me the CSE syllabus being used in teaching our secondary school students the techniques of masturbation, dating, putting on the condoms, sexual communications and negotiations, how to do abortion in secret, how to practice “safe-sex” in secret without getting pregnant by using contraceptives such as IUCD injectables, vaginal foams and jellies, diaphragm, hormonalimplants,oralcontraceptivepills,touching andexaminationofmaleandfemalereproductive organs, naked body images, erection, ejaculation, kissing,caressing,sterilizationprocedureformale bymakingofincisioninthescrotumandbycutting andtyingthevasdeferens;sterilizationprocedure for female by cutting and tying the Fallopian tube, infertility and other immoral topics.
TheNGObackrollingthisimmoralCSEcurriculum inNigeriaiscalledActionHealthIncorporated(AHI), situate in Yaba, Lagos. The immoral CSE is being sponsoredinNigeriabyawell-knowninternational pro-abortionorganizationcalledJohnD.andCatherine T. MarArthur Foundation of Chicago, U.S.A. The CSE curriculum is copied verbatim from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).