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To everyone in this Group that isn't Nigerian, or hasn't got a clue what I'm talking about. Recently, one of our female senators proposed a Bill that would make it a criminal offence for any female above the age of 14 to reveal any skin more than 2 inches below her shoulder (YES, YOU READ IT RIGHT) and anything above her knee. She claims that the men are not to blame for the many rapes and incidents of sexual abuse/harassment and violence against women that go on in Nigeria today. According to Senator Ekaette, it is the women that are to blame, for being so attractive to the men.

Senator Ekaette prescribes a minimum of a six month jail term for any offending woman or girl, and in her bill gives law enforcement the right to detain, harass, and judge any woman that they decide is guilty. (NOTE: Police violence towards women is legendary, especially when they enter the prison system. A policeman is more likely to join in and gang rape you than accost your rapist).

What bothers me about this woman is that there are so many more pressing issues that Nigeria needs to deal with, yet she is pushing this bill like there is no tomorrow. In her constituency, thousands of young children are being slaughtered daily because greedy churches have branded them 'witches' and demand money for the deliverance of the children. In the north, grown men have sex with girls as young as 9 (nine) and it's deemed acceptable. They don't even use protection, and the poor children end up pregnant, sick, and many of them die in childbirth or if they survive, they have to live with VVF (Vesico-Vagina-Fistula) where they constantly drip urine and sometimes faeces and are ostracised by the community...

....AND THIS WOMAN IS CONCERNED WITH PEOPLE LOOKING SEXY!!! WE ARE A BLOODY TROPICAL COUNTRY FOR GOODNESS' SAKE! MOST WHITE PEOPLE CAN'T SURVIVE THE HEAT IN NIGERIA FOR MORE THAN ONE OR TWO HOURS WITHOUT SHADE OR WATER!!

I am so disgusted that this is what the Nigerian Senate is wasting its time with.

Senator Ekaette is a Gaping Vagina, without a doubt.

Here are Nigerian Newspaper Links to articles about the bill, and links to blogs by Nigerian Bloggers reacting to the bill:
Guardian Newspaper

Nigerian Tribune

ThisDay Nigeria

Bella Naija

Naija Blog
If you'd like to do more research, a quick Google Search of "Senator Ekaette, bill" or "Nigeria dressing bill" or anything similar will do.

I'm just as upset about the next person about this bill, perhaps even more, but there are some things everyone needs to realise:

 

1. This bill is nonsensical. You CANNOT aim to address Indecent Dressing and Sexual Harassment in the same bill. To do so is to effectively link the two, and suggest that Sexual Violence and Harassment is a direct result of a certain manner of dress as Senator Ekaette is claiming.

 

2. I have read all 6 pages of this bill, and it looks like a vindictive attempt to deal with a personal issue under the guise of curbing sexual harassment in universities, work places, etc. My verdict: Senator Ekaette's husband is probably eying some hot young babe, and Madam Senator is bitter because she's let herself go.

 

3. It is effectively not the business of the government how anyone dresses. Nigeria has too many pressing problems to deal with. I don't even know how this bill got to the Senate floor, and it just shows how foolish the Senator is for pushing this bill when there is an exacerbated situation involving the murder of hundreds of children as 'child-witches' in HER constituency.

 

4. Women will forever be their own worst enemies. You will never see a man proposing a bill that would ban polygamy or prevent those perverted old men from marrying pre-teenage girls in the north, but women are always the front runners when it's time to bite another woman in the butt. It's pitiful and sad, and this is why men just fold their arms and shake their heads at us. Gee, thanks A LOT Senator Ekaette. Thanks for doing your job by lashing out at your husband through all the women of Nigeria. Who the HELL voted you in anyway?

 

5. What a SMART woman the Senator must be. By her reasoning, a girl under the age of 14 is an asexual creature. Devoid of sex organs and sexual feelings. Immune to sexual advances and attacks, and possessed of no sexual capacity whatsoever.

 

Babe needs to get educated.

 

TO SENATOR EKAETTE (should you happen upon my post):

 

MEN DO NOT FORGET THAT WOMEN HAVE VAGINAS JUST BECAUSE THEY CANNOT SEE THEM! YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY THINK THAT FORCING WOMEN TO COVER EVERY INCH OF THEIR BODIES (IN A TROPICAL COUNTRY)WILL CURE ALL THE SEXUAL ILLS OF SOCIETY CAN YOU?

 

...oh wait, you do.. that's why you proposed the bill isn't it?

We've had SUCH a long hiatus, and I'm sorry, but I've been wrapped up in school, running Barcelagos, and everything else I've got on my plate that Groundstreet Radio has been on the back burner for quite a while.

Not to worry though, Season Two begins and it's going to be bigger, better, and badder than before. The first show will be this Valentine weekend, and I'll be talking about quite a lot of stuff, from Valentine, obviously, to the Grammy's, the direction African youth are taking, and the hottest new unsigned artist that everyone's talking about on Facebook: Bez. I've got his demo track here for everyone to listen to. You should also check out his MySpace Artist Page HERE

Let me drop names now before it's too late: Bez and I went to secondary school together. Yes, he was my senior, and he was in SS2 when I was in JS1, but he was on my dining hall table. Heh heh!

There it is! I've announced my association. Don't say you didn't know. His sound is pretty cool, and if you're tired of all the mindless pop and hip hop that's everywhere these days, you'll love Jazz for Mary, which is what his demo is titled.

Bon ecoutant!

Jazz for Mary - Bez

Hey everyone!

I know I've been gone for a minute, but I've been working my ass off with school and what else? T-shirts!! It's that time of the year again and everyone is all lovey-dovey and stuff, but I never feel comfortable at Valentine because in high school I was always the girl that never had a boyfriend, and whose name was always at the top of the infamous 'Roast List' (the list of girls that would not be getting Val cards or gifts from boyfriends/admirers/etc). In fact, that leads me to a funny little story that I want to tell.

One particular year, I was so fed up with being on the Roast List and never

being 'Valled', that I planned a year in advance towards Valentine's Day. While I was in America on holiday, I bought this massive teddy bear that said 'I love you' on it and lit up when you squeezed its paw, some beautiful cards and other stuff and took it back to Nigeria with me. Then I stashed it in the house and went off to boarding school, and the next year when the time was right, I had my mom send all that stuff to me under a pseudonym (yes, my Mom felt so sorry for me that she went along with my shameful plan), and I pretended that 'my boyfriend' from home (who was fictitiously in university by the way) sent me all that stuff for Valentine because he missed me so and wanted to make sure I felt loved on the special day. Oooh yes, I strutted around cuddling my teddy bear, and for the first time in 5 years, they were forced to cancel my name from the Roast List. Damn, it felt good.

Well, I'm confessing now because.... because it's blogville and I don't need to lie anymore. I'm not going to have a Valentine this year but I don't really care. I'm rather fed up with love at the mo, and I've been busy all week making a special Valentine's Day t-shirt collection to express my frustration with love. It's called the Doomsday Valentine, and here are my favourite three t-shirts from the collection:

The inspiration behind it is every girl that has ever roasted, that has been forced to endure tactless couples expressing their fatuous love in public places, that has had her heart broken, that has ever been fed up with bloody love. I say to you! Rock on! Break down the PDA-ers, squash their stupid lovemaking, and drown them in a wave of gloom, to every girl who has a heart...

...have a gloomy Valentine :)

You can see the rest of the Doomsday Valentine here!

How sad....