Emir of Kano and former CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who once
said that those who think he's a problem, should wait for his children,
has disclosed why he supported his daughter, Shaheeda who represented
him at the BBOG movement’s third anniversary lecture for missing Chibok
girls in Abuja last Friday, when he slapped a boy.
By her own
account at the Transcorp-Hilton Hotel venue of the event, Shaheeda said
that she just became the first female in northern Nigeria to represent
an Emir at a formal event.
While she appeared to have some
inkling about the criticism that was bound to trail the development, and
her not so conventional or inadequate use of the veil, her father’s
video message that introduced her as a rather strange child took some
members of the audience by surprise.
“Let me tell you something
about the young lady who is going to read my speech. When she was in
Form 3, I remember an incident that is probably relevant for today. Her
mother came to me and said: ‘You need to talk to your daughter’ and I
asked her: ‘Why?’ “She said: ‘Your daughter slapped a boy in school’.
It
is a bit strange so, I called Shaheeda and said: ‘Shaheeda, I heard
that you slapped a boy in school. Why did you do it?’ “Then she said:
‘Dad, that boy has no respect for women’.
So, I asked her exactly
what she meant by that. It turned out that one day, during prep in the
afternoon, in full class, the boy had come to her, and put his finger to
her forehead and pushed it backwards, and he was in the habit of doing
it to all the girls in the class.
She had said nothing apparently and
waited until the next day. She walked into the prep class late, the
whole class was full, and she walked up to him, slapped him, and said:
‘That was for yesterday’.
So, long before we started talking
about marriage and talking about whether when your husband slaps you,
you should slap him back, Shaheeda had decided for herself that she
would not take abuse, she would not take insult and she would not be
disrespected by any man,” the Emir stated in the video message shortly
before his daughter, Shaheeda read a prepared text.
Source: ChannelsTV
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