What do
you want to say to someone about trust? Trust in a partner, relationship,
pastor, or even God?
What do
you tell a girl, when the first person God intended would be, to an extent, a
reflection of His image and attributes, was the first to crush her trust, her
confidence, her pride, and even became a practical example of “man’s extreme
wickedness”?
How
would she believe that there is an ever loving Father (whom she cannot see),
when the father she can see is heartless to the point of using her like she was
a whore?
These
cases are growing everyday...people's consciences, hearts, morals have traveled
along with time, and have refused to return. Where is our sanity?
Another
case recently shared; a girl of 13 summoned the courage to report her father
who has been sleeping with her for 3 years. She cried every time he had his
way, and each time neighbors heard her crying, they sought reasons, but her father constantly claimed to
be "punishing" her. What a father!
That
you birth a child does not place you in a position to turn your child into a toy, the point of molestation. You were just privileged to be a custodian; it wasn't your right so
don't abuse it, just cherish it.
That's
not the end of the story...this girl had always been courageous enough to tell
her "father's" brother anytime it happened. The brother would always
say "no mind am, na the drink wey him dey take" (in order words,
"pay no attention to him, it's because of his addiction to alcohol).
Please, please, please, I'm I suppose to pay deaf ears or play stiff to someone
who is trying to mesmerize my body?... The one person she confided in from the
beginning did nothing to get her out of it...did nothing to save to her...
Where is the love? Where is the heart? Where is the courage to save a little
girl? Where is the decency? Every where is oozing with man's insanity...
Ah...ah...ah...,
if man was God...if I had the power, all abusers would be buried alive. Quite
alright, research has made us understand that most abusers where also abused.
But hey, that you were abused does not say you should put someone else through
such pain. How can people be so wicked? And ....a father...a father to his
daughter or even son ...a mother to her son...This is wickedness. This is
insanity.
Please, let’s all rise. In our corners, in our
homes, in our schools, in our churches, in our mosques...everywhere...let’s
help destroy this thing that is destroying our babies. Let’s speak against it,
let’s protect the little ones around us (your children, nieces, nephews,
cousins, neighbors...all of them). Let’s help look out for their well being.
They won’t carry placards indicating that they need help; it’s a yearning from
within that’s loud enough for us to hear only if we pay close attention.
Please,
let’s help these ones.
