Senator Sani Yerima
Who is the pedophile? Senator Sanni Yerima of Zamfara State, who married a 13yr old from Egypt as his fourth wife and paid $100,000 (about N15 million) to her family as bride price.
Will he be expelled from the Senate?
Baby-boomer Sani Yerima has just taken delivery of his fourth wife. As a Muslim, we cannot accuse him of bigamy. A fourth wife is just it for a Muslim who has enough harvest in his barn to cater for such indulgence. The Muslim religion allows for up to four wives.
So, in the case of Yerima, we ought to be clinking glasses in animated celebration. But there is a snag. Yerima's wife is also his daughter or even grand daughter. She's a 13-year-old Egyptian girl, a soft-spoken, pliant and innocent virgin. That's the person that appealed to Yerima most; that captured his dirty heart and captivated his depraved sense of love. Even Pharaoh with all his shortcomings would not have approved of this act of savagery.
Taking a starry-eyed 13-year-old as wife is a pastime only fit for maniacs. It is the stuff of decadent minds. But Yerima is not new to such dissolute acts. Recall he was governor of Zamfara State for eight years, from 1999 to 2007. He was the chief proponent of Sharia law. He introduced the Islamic legal code in his Zamfara State. A man of such near-manic passion to please his God ought to be a repository of morals, a beacon of rectitude and exemplar of the finest virtues of civility. Not so for Yerima.
As governor, he got the hand of Citizen Jangebi chopped off in the name of justice. Jangebi's offence was grave, very grave. He was convicted by a Sharia court for stealing a cow. Yes, a cow, which as at then was not more than N60,000 in the market. That's a grave offence, my dear. And for stealing such rare quadruped specie, Yerima got Jangebi's hand amputated. Yerima defended his action amidst a swirling tide of public outrage. Yet, while he was governor, there was rumour of billions of Naira flying out of government coffers into private pockets. It ceased to be rumour when former boss of the anti-crime agency, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, singled out Yerima for lampooning.
While tendering the report of the investigations carried out by the EFCC on serving governors during ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo regime, Ribadu told a bewildered National Assembly that the variant of corruption in Yerima's Zamfara was of the primitive genre. "It was a case of direct stealing", a seething Ribadu told his audience. And this is my quarrel with Yerima's moral self-glorification. A man who would crucify a fellow man for stealing N60,000 has showed up to play the role of officiating minister at the funeral when the same man cannot account for billions of Naira put under his care. Yerima's case file is still at the EFCC. I hope he hasn't forgotten that. But that's by the way.
Copyright, Blaise APLOGAN, 2010,© Bienvenu sur Babilown
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