Pedophilia in Northern Nigeria: Reno Omokri's Published Commentary/Letter to The Katsina Emirate

Daily Post Nigeria - Published Letter By Reno Omokri

"I have just read the statement made by the Katsina Emirate Council on the issue of Habiba Isa, the 14 year old Christian girl that allegedly converted to Islam at the emir’s palace and thereafter got married to the Emir of Katsina, his Royal highness, Alhaji Abdulmumin Usman. According to the Katsina Emirate Council, 14 year old Habiba’s marriage to Emir Abdulmumin Usman, is “irreversible”!'

The council said the marriage and Isa’s conversion to Islam were voluntarily and willingly entered into by the girl. I urge the Katsina Emirate Council to reconsider their assertion that a girl of 14 has the capacity to not only change her religion from Christianity to Islam but to also consent to marriage without her parents permission. The emir of Katsina is 65 years old. Habiba is 14. Between them there is a 51 year age gap. The emir is powerful, Habiba is powerless. Under such a situation, how can the Katsina Emirate Council justify this decision?

A girl of 14 can’t vote and can’t get a driver’s license which are much less complicated than marriage, so how can she consent to marriage. Let us reverse the situation. Let us assume that a Christian in Kano met a 14 year old Muslim girl on her way to school or perhaps to the market and engages her in conversation that leads to her conversion to Christianity and then announces to the world that they are to be married. How would that situation go down in Kano? Would it be acceptable?" Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/emir-katsinas-marriage-14-year-old-habiba-reno/

[Reno Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/emir-katsinas-marriage-14-year-old-habiba-reno/]