Monday, 21 March 2016

That "Pedophile" might actually be innocent o!


I hate ABUSE, in whatever form.

Physical, emotional, psychological; but the one I hate the most - the one that makes we wish to have supernatural powers so I can properly deal with the perpetrator, the one I HATE to hear of - is SEXUAL ABUSE!

It kills me inside when I hear a person was sexually abused. 
When I hear it’s a child...................Oh dear God! I feel like the perpetrator be fried, slowly, in a basin of hot oil, mixed with Cameroon pepper - after being castrated and his tongue cut off! That's how much I loath pedophiles. 
Why on God's green earth will a person lay a hand - sexually on a person who isn't an adult???
 I can't understand it so I’ll just chalk it up to "it’s demon possession" (we have a way of going spiritual with things we can't comprehend, right?)

Well, since I have successfully (I hope) let you in on how much I hate people who defile children, let us take a little step backwards, clear our heads and really think about this. Do you know that some kids cry wolf when nothing has actually happened???? You don’t believe that to be true, right?
I didn’t too, until recently

A petty trader in my area has a girl of about 10 living with her. I don’t see that girl anymore so I asked about her from another woman who is close to them. The story I heard shocked me to the bone and made me re-evaluate everything I have ever heard about child molesters.
The little girl was sent on an errand to an office in the area. She went there and instead of doing what she came for and leaving, she started playing and chatting with the guys in that office (the office assistants and stuff) The gist was getting too much and the boys were being too playful with her so one of the ogas in the office came out and asked her to do what she came for and leave quickly.
The girl left. Only for her to go some soldiers who guard a government establishment in the area (the soldiers know her very well) she went to them, crying bitterly, and told them that someone tried ‘fingering’ her. The soldiers were mad! They immediately wore their boots and marched her to show them the ‘bloody baga’. The girl took them to that office and pointed to the oga who sent her away! The man was so confused when the soldiers came to meet him. He denied from north to south, from east to west but the soldiers were hearing none of it. They probably would have beaten him black and blue if not that they know the guy quite well in the area. As the commotion was going on someone caught the girl giving the man the tongue from behind the soldiers (she was doing ‘ntoor’ to the guy!)


The person shouted and pointed it out. That was when it dawned on everyone that the girl was lying! She was angry with the man for cutting short her play time with the boys so she decided to frame him. She probably knows how much people hate child molesters so she decided to use that story.
Can u imagine!
This is a girl who is still in primary school.
Can u imagine how many ‘pedophiles’ and ‘child molesters’ have been framed like this????
We think these children can’t do stuff like this. I thought so too. How wrong we are. Some of them have grown to be so evil!
God help us!
Before we jump in conclusions when we hear of allegations like this, we should take out time to do some investigations. Really interview the child and people around. Let’s be absolutely sure before we nail that person to the cross.
And let’s also try to raise our kids to know right and wrong. To know the value in integrity and the value in a good name.
Prayer

God please help me as well as all parents do right by our kids, give us wisdom to train our kids aright and help us keep them safe from all evil and evil people, Amen.

Friday, 18 March 2016

Detained in hospital, after childbirth, for 5 months!


What!? Where is that hospital? Who is this callous doctor that will keep a woman in a hospital after childbirth for this long?? Are they mad? What devilish people? Don't they have human sympathy????

Are these your thoughts right now? I'm sure they are. Those were my thoughts too, when i heard the line i used in the title.

NEVER CONCLUDE ANYTHING AFTER HEARING JUST ONE SIDE OF A STORY!

That's what i learnt today. Well, i have known that for so long, but today, this saying was reinforced in my mind.

The real story
So, a reporter at Vanguard newspaper contacted a good friend of mine, telling her that his neighbor had been held hostage at the hospital were she gave birth, since November last year. My friend shared this disturbing news on our whatsapp group and it touched my soul. I told her i would go with her to investigate this matter and see what i can do to help. We went to the hospital today.

The hospital - a big hospital located at Ejigbo, Lagos - looked very good from the outside but our anger, borne out of the news we had gotten, didn't let us appreciate anything. We went in and met with the lady (let's call her B). After talking with her for less than 5 minutes, i realized something - this woman is not a serious person . Not serious about anything!
No child comes suddenly. Like my friend told her today, every child gives the parents 9 months notice before showing up. How can a woman be pregnant, go 9 months and not have a dime to pay for hospital bill???? No kobo at all!

Let's be realistic. Yes, true, we know the country is hard, money is so hard to come by these days, but come on! Yes, she gave birth through cesarean section. She probably didn't expect to, that is understandable. But she didn't even have a dime to pay from day 1 that she was admitted at the hospital. The hospital took her in, carried out CS operation on her, cared for the baby and her and they didn't ask her for any initial deposit!!! Took her 3 months to make her first payment which was even less than 1% of her total bill! I am not kidding you!

If i didn't go there today and saw things with my eyes, i wouldn't have believed that a hospital like this exists in  this country! That a hospital owner can still value human life above money.

But why do people do things like this????? If you know you can't handle a baby, why why why would you go in to produce one???

I was so appalled today. So mad at the lady and the guy who impregnated her (i hate the word "baby daddy") Both of them are disappointments as far as i am concerned. And not because they can't afford to pay hospital bill. NO, not that. But because they seem so comfortable in their situation, not willing to do anything to get out of it.

I want to say that the hospital has been AMAZING!!! I am so pleased to be on the side of a hospital in a case like this. I am usually one to cry "Blue murder" when i hear that a hospital detained someone, a nursing mother most especially. But in this case, i applaud the hospital. They still allow her to be comfortable - with a bed, new sheets each day, access to water and steady light and a clean environment. Considering the kinds of stories of inhuman doctors and hospitals we hear these days, this is a welcome relief.

But a hospital environment is no place for a new baby to grow up in. That baby needs to get out of that hospital. For the sake of that baby - that beautiful, adorable, playful and pleasant baby girl - i am going to follow up this matter until B and her baby goes home.