As girls have become dangerously at risk in Nigeria, policies and plans to improve their safety have run into the many obstacles erected by a predatory patriarchy that is insatiable for fodder for its pervasive experiment. This month, a prominent face of this predatory patriarchy zoomed himself into the Nigerian experience in the form of Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly.
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged the Minister for Women Affairs and Social Development, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, to withdraw the litigation and petition she wrote to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), over the proposed sponsor of the marriage of 100 orphaned girls in Niger State. The Chairman, Kano State…