Wednesday 24 July 2013

Is this really a photo of Senator Yerima and his child bride?

Is this really a photo of Senator Yerima and his child bride?

Is this really a photo of Senator Yerima and his child bride?
Help me solve my ignorance, I must have been too deep designing websites and doing other stuff that I am almost unaware of the latest happenings in Nigeria, my country. I have been following the whole underage marriage saga very keenly but popular American blogger, Sandra Rose seems to know better than I do, about my country.
She posted a photo of this couple and said Senator Yerima was the one in the photo with his child bride. Did the senator look like this several years ago?
After her sister died, Tino Borantu was married off to her sister?s husband when she was 9 years old. Still she does not clearly understand what her role is as a wife, inheriting her older sister?s husband and child. But obviously she cooks for the family, looks after the small baby and lives in same house with the man who is older than her by over 26 years. Tino is from a society where is common for girls, irrespective of their age, to be forced to inherit the marriage and children of their dead sisters. This kind of phenomenon fuels HIV & AIDS epidemics, and raises maternal mortality and morbidity. This is one of the challenges CARE Ethiopia is trying to address with one of its development projects called Healthy Unions which started in November 2007.
In a report she captions “New Nigeria Law Says Men Can Marry Baby Girls“ she writes:
The last few years have tested the longstanding history of traditional marriage. Homosexuals are winning the right to marry in some parts of the world, and a new amendment to Nigeria’s Constitution states that grown men can marry underage girls, even infants.
Pictured above is Nigerian Senator Yerima posing with his child bride, left, and holding his baby bride.
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