(By Joy Isi Bewaji) - The only
sin you commit in Nigeria is poverty.
If this 70
year old woman was having consensual sex with a younger adult male in her
three-bedroom apartment in ParkView estate, Ikoyi...
The hand
of culture, religion or any idiotic rule made for homo-habilis will not be able
to pass through tight security at the gates... how much more knock on her door
and drag her out of her right to be pleasured.
Living
amongst poverty and its attendant cousins allow for intrusion. When you are
poor, your life is not yours. It belongs to the people who pray for you to find
food. These people control your life and everything that happens to the holes
in your body - what you eat (when you eventually find food made possible by
their prayers), and what is inserted in your vagina.
The sin of
poverty is the only crime in Nigeria.
This is
why Crime, placed side-by-side an unintelligent, unenlightened, ill-equipped
Police force, seems to be an unending unquenchable and achievable alternative
for many. What they are really fighting for is dignity.
