MY darling, precious, glorious, dignified, world-famous and heavenly celebrated Nigerian sisters,
Happy new month to you. I pray this month shall mark the beginning of the best days of your life in Jesus mighty name! Amen.
I write to you today with a rather heavy heart, disturbed at what the world is turning into and man’s inhumanity to man, children and girls being the victims. If you read the newspapers daily, you would know what I am talking about. A few weeks ago, I read about a 12-year-old girl who was continuously raped by her aunt’s husband she was living with and was taken for an abortion when she got pregnant. How could any human being think of doing that to a baby, a child, who was born only 12 years ago? I imagine the girl to be one of those innocent girls sent from the village to Lagos for greener pastures, perhaps a girl whose parents couldn’t afford to make comfortable in life or one of those girls born out of a promiscuous relationship by a young woman and then dumped on her grandmother or someone who felt she could get a better life with her aunt in Lagos. Early last month, one of so many stories of incest was reported in Bayelsa State – a father slept with his daughter since she was age 11 and tried to abort her 4-month-old pregnancy discovered by her stepmother when she was 12 and in the process, she had to battle with her life after being handled by a quack. Eventually, her other sisters confessed they had been subjected to the same treatment.
The same day I read about the 12-year-old girl defiled by her uncle, I read with great horror how a grandmother and stepmother attempted to murder a 21-month-old boy by removing one of his eyes, cutting his tongue and his private parts and then breaking his hands and legs. How could anyone do such? What was the offence of the little boy who never asked to be brought into this horrible world but was dumped with his father by his mother who decided to opt out of the marriage? Who knows why she left him? Perhaps it’s one of those beastly marriages popular in the north. However, did she have to leave her gift from God to those she would have known weren’t on her side? Would the 12-year-old Bayelsa girl and her sisters have suffered emotionally and physically if their mother had not left them with their father? Sadly, in a patriarchal society like ours, she may even have been denied access to her girls asides not being able to fend for them. My worry is how these kids would heal. Most of these girls are just left to face whatever life shoves at them without proper rehabilitation and emotional support from the society. Most times they end up becoming a “disaster” as a result of being violated in childhood. Life is certainly not a bed of roses, but God has given us the gift of life to enjoy life and not to suffer life. Everyone deserves a good life regardless of their social status.
Girls, anyone of you reading this could have been a victim of adverse circumstances just like the kids above but thank God you aren’t. Perhaps, secretly you are, because I mentor a good number of readers (girls) defiled by fathers and uncles at a very young age. You all need to map out for yourself a good life right from your early teens and start working towards it so you don’t end up bringing children into this world to suffer. As much as possible, you have to assert yourself at a young age and make sure you get enough education that could fetch you enough income in future to take care of your kids in case anything goes wrong in whatever type of marriage you find yourself. If you engage in pre-marital sex and have a child out of wedlock and the father of the child refuses to take care of the child leaving him to suffer, you are also to blame for bringing a child into a life of misery. There’s nothing as good as doing things God’s way and letting him handle the reins of our life from a young age. I tell you, no matter the ill-luck fate or life has planned for you, you will always come out a victor and not a victim. I know what I am talking about!
This is not a curse, but things are going to get worse in the world, in fact I pity a lot of you without good parental care and the unborn children. Evil is going to wax stronger because these are the end times. But you know what? You can live the best life ever. May God bless you all and make you VERY GREAT! Amen. God loves you, so do I!