Justice for Maimuna...

Proverbs 31:6-9
8:Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves;
      ensure justice for those being crushed.
 ⁹ Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless,
      and see that they get justice.


So i read this passage today, per my daily readings and the case of Maimuna came to mind..  Case found here: http://bit.ly/hrPGQf  
(Daily Trust)  


Usually i read cases like this and fear for Nigeria... not because cases like this happen,  but because situations like this can happen and no-one is saying anything about it. It somehow dissolves in the memory of leaders and spectators alike... 


What is also disturbing is how insensitised we have become to information like this. 


Basically the jist of the case is that this is a 16 year old girl who was going home from seeing her mother... and police stopped her and told her they would take her home. However they took her to the police station.. kept this girl for 28 days and turned her into a sex slave.. 


I read it, i stopped I laughed... I continued I stopped i said ah ah... 


Police gannn... the police... 


i don't even know what to say... to be honest with you, I couldn't even finish reading the article. i mean i got the idea and everything.. it was sickening enough when I read half of it. 


If the very individuals who are meant to be protecting the people are doing this... what hope do we have of protection from anyone? 


I felt very sad.... 
I didn't know what to do to help... 


Like, this could have been my sister.. or even the worst thing.. my daughter...(not that i have a kid or i'm old enough to have a 16 year old daughter jor oh!) 


but seriously... I don't know what would have... infact let's not even go there.. 
God will protect us. 


The only thing I can do right now is bring awareness and pray for her.. I would like to ask you guys to pray for her.. just take like 5 minutes for God bring her through this awful ordeal. 


We all know if this happened in United States of America or United Kingdom this would have been so condemned and called for a public investigation of the case. 


but in Nigeria.. nothing like that. All you have to do, pay some people.. beat some people and in a month's time it's forgotten. yeah they say that they are investigating and all that.. all I can say is "all na yans or story" (that's just talk) 


but this young girl's life would be scarred forever..who even knows if the girl has STD's now. 


What even makes it appaling is the fact that they are on her case to drop the accusations... you gats be kidding me.. drop this case ke? just because she's fatherless and poor.. 


I appreciate the fact that we have countries worse off than us, such as Mexico with their drug wars and having a 14 year old boy as a serial assassin (ah i was erm... rather intrigued by that one.. 14 year old ke? and he knew what he was doing, and the way he killed was so gory.. ah ah..) 


Also i have taken into consideration that this story may not be true... (unlikely to me though) but even if it is untrue, we must be aware, that things like this do actually happen.  


I read somewhere that if you don't speak up for someone, no one will speak up for you. 


Myself, @FragmentedMind1 and @MHBKD123 have tried tweeting @PureyforCNN (CNN's correspondent for west Africa) to take up this story and bring awareness... but no response


What I don't get as @FragmentedMind1 said is how a person in power can see this story and just flip the page.... 




God is not sleeping... He has seen this.. God is the God of the poor, the defender of the weak, fatherless, poor and defenceless.. ah.. this one cannot go unpunished o. 


I do pray that God has mercy on them when He decides to vex, but also I pray, these men will realise what they've done and ask for forgiveness. (Though this would be harder for me to say if this was someone i knew personally or was my child.. i'm not even going to lie.. that would be extraaaa special grace of God) 


Asking for forgiveness will not however take away this experience and all, but at least i'm sure that people who have been sexually abused do appreciate some form of apology or remorse from the person who sexually abused them. 


(i'd write on that issue sometime later) 


Anyways so... if you think you got problems.. think of this girl and thank God that you are not her. Unless somehow your problems are worse than hers.. then well I sympathise with you.. 


So 
Pray for her.. and remember.. 


God is still God no matter what. 


Kally 

Introduction...

Lol.. So I am actually doing this… Writing a blog.. *cringe*

Okay..so I’ll start off by giving a brief overview of myself and what to expect.

Name: 

Kally.

Religious Status: 

Okay now I would like to make one thing EXTREMELY clear. I am a person who follows Christ. He’s my priority and my all in all.. I am not perfect, most definitely not. But I try to do things the Jesus way.  If you don’t know Jesus, ask me about Him I’d tell you.. He’s a really cool and interesting guy. Bottom line is he’s my Eternal Insurance.

Purpose of the Blog

Erm.. pretty much Everything I consider to be relevant to me…  I’m just tired of Twitter telling me “I have to be more clever” are you kidding? How can a computer tell me I have to be more clever.. but heh! Okay so sha.. This is my erm outlet as I tend to be really opinionated about stuff…

Okay to be honest.. the main purpose of the blog is to challenge myself.. develop my way of thinking.. explore more areas.. current events and stuff..  like frankly I’m tired of being limited to what rave is going on, or who is sleeping with who.. or who’s lying to who.. abeg, lets step to a higher intellectual level, life is more serious than that jare.

(oh by the way.. I’m Nigerian so please excuse the one off slangs)

So hopefully this blog would be interesting and no I don’t plan for it to be different and be that special one… It’s JUST a blog.. -_- life is not that serious…

So.. Let’s Go!