By Kenechukwu Obiezu
In the appalling arrangement of child marriage across Nigeria and the world, those who marry children are as guilty as those who marry off children in what is a grand but grievous theft.
All those who get involved, including all those who consent
either by their silence or compliance, are thieves of the worst kind. From
girls barely off their mothers’ breast, they steal a childhood, a girlhood, and
more damningly, a future.
In the place of innocence, they sow iniquity, and from bodies unblemished by the complications of adulthood, they force out anguished lives. In Nigeria, as in many other countries around the world that have failed to reconcile equity and equality, being a woman is a never-ending battle.
