10/01/2022
A CRY 😭 😭 OF A GIRL CHILD
Written by Okolie Angel Isioma - a girl child advocate.
"Can this be real?"
No, no!
wipe your eyes,
perhaps, you may have been dreaming.
Is not a dream,
This is reality.
But wait ooo
How did we get here?
Is this really Nigeria or Venezuela?
Is heart breaking 💔💔,
cries!!! 😭😭
Mother is crying, father couldn't hold his tears again,
this isn't like in THINGS FALL APART, where a brave man don't cry.
A tragedy has fallen,
"Amaka was picked with tricycle";they said,
"By unknown men on her way to school,
it's now two days, no where to be found,"
Mother is inconsolable,
"Report to police!"
Suggested the neighborhood.
"Wait for 24 hours,
she must have visited her boyfriend.";claimed the Police officer.
Hmmmm!
Wait ooo!
Where is that noise,
coming from.
Today again 😩😩,
what is it, say something naw?
A loud scream of an agony woman agony.
Isn't that Aishat mother's voice?
I ran to the scene as a girl child advocate,
what's happening?
Another tragedy😟☹️.
Mrs Ojo sent her daughter,
Aishat, a 13 year old, to get things for lunch at nearby market.
She's no way to be found,
another report to the police station.
"She is a girl child in her teens,
go home and wait,
we have gotten series of cases like that,
where eventually, we found out she was with her boyfriend,
after 24 hours, come back,
hope you know what it takes ?"
Mother screamed;
"My child has no boyfriend!
She's still a virgin!
She usually goes to the same market and returns in 15-30mins!
I disagree with you!"
This is terrible,
I assume it's another kidnapping case,
Amaka and Aishat haven't been found,
It's four days now.
Investigation suspended,
24 hours have gone by,
Cause no money to fuel the police van.
What can a poor carpenter, Amaka's father, or
a poor Plumber, Aishat's father do,
as the money requested,
can't be gotten in a day's work.
Some months later,
Mummy Kemi dropped some information,
to her children,
of 5,7 and 10 years.
Left for the market to get things for dinner,
that's all the children knew about her,
no account regarding her way about.
Is 12pm, Kemi's mother has not returned.
Tension was high, who could eat and sleep,
in such scenario.
Around 2am,Kemi's father phone rang,
his wife is on the phone,
"I don't know where I am,
I only know that my legs and hands are tied,
I just woke up from long sleep.
I can hear someone discussing on phone,
saying the parts are ready and some women are also here"
That's another kidnapping case😩😞,
of a mother of three,
he rushed to the police station,
to give account of the incident.
Returned with the same response,
hoping on God.
After 2 days, Mummy Kemi returned,
to the glory of God,here's her testimony.
At the moment she was to be slaughtered,
her menstrual cycle started,
the slaughterman screamed;
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Bad market, what are we going to do ooo
What shall we tell Baba?"
She has started seeing her me**es,
she has been stained all over,
it's a taboo,
as she has defiled the sacrifice.
The other two diaagreed;
"NO! , it will spoil work for Baba,
he is a nice man,
we can't pay him evil with good."
They decided to throw her off,
to find another scapegoat for replacement,
that's how Mummy Kemi,
returned after 2 days.
These and many more,
are the tragedic stories,
happening in my country,
and all are claimed to be well.
Their target is the girl child,
female children and mothers.
What's their offence and crime?
Now, fear on everyone,
movement is restricted,
on every girl child and their mothers alike.
"Be careful when you are going out!
If someone gets down,
for you to enter Keke,
don't enter!"
Don't enter Sieana,
don't do these,
don't do that.
That sounds like a breach to freedom,
but rather, it's for the safety of a girl child,
An information passed by the parents,
shouldn't be violated,
but a country that violates the right of a girl child,
is gradually, introducing feminicide era.
Every girl child has a right,
in one accord, we echo;
"Don't I have the right?
To go to church and mosque alone?
Go to school and study with others?
Has freedom of movement,
been erased from the constitution?
Don't I have the right to dress how I like?
Attend the school I want?
Why am I targeted?
Where are the Neighborhood watchmen?
What's going on?
Where are the Crime fighters?
What's going on?
Do we still have hope?
What's going on?
My leaders,
Have we committed any wrong to be a girl or a woman?
What's going on?
Haven't my leaders heard of it?
What's going on?
Why are they silent?
What's going on?
Why are our parts been sold to Alhajis?
What's going on?
What are they using it for?
What's going on?"
N.B:This is what is happening in my area, that has been placed in poem.
Every girl child, share until it gets to the right person.
Thank you 🥰
