The secondary school student, whose name is not given, was said to have fled her home after her parents granted the request of the Cleric identified as Alhaji Yusuf Lateef to marry the teenager as his 9th wife.
She ran away from her parents’ home in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area to Akure, on the day fixed for the solemnization of their supposed marriage with support from her brother.
Alhaji Lateef had in 2019 approached the girl’s parents to solicit their daughter’s hand in marriage when she was 15, the teenager was said to have turned down the proposal but her parents accepted and fixed a date for the marriage.
On getting to Akure she was taken to the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development where she was sheltered and legal works began to stop the forced marriage.
Alhaji Lateef and the girl’s parents were subsequently arraigned at the Family Court for breaching part three of the 2007 Ondo State Child Rights Law.
The court presided over by Justice Aderemi Adegoroye ordered the immediate return of the girl to her family for proper care and education and warned Lateef to stay away from her.
The court also ruled that Alhaji Lateef be made to sign an undertaking to stay away from her as well as ensure no harm comes her way.
While lauding the ruling, the Ondo State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Titilola Adeyemi, described the ruling as a victory for children in the state.
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God of mercy, why is this country turning into? We normally hear such news from the north, now its spreading to the west. God thing it was stopped.
ReplyDelete16years old? 9th wife? This is absolutely insane of such a man or anyone that will condone such an act. Goodness me!!! Thank God the law acted rightly. This is how they married over five to seven wives and children scatter all over the place and when they can't train them or feed them properly, they force them into arms begging or worse still transport them to neighboring states to fend for themselves. Tell me why won't their psych be damaged? Stupid man.
ReplyDeleteIf he has nine wives then most of his children will be older than the poor girl. Her parents no try.
DeleteMan's greed is insatiable 😣
ReplyDeleteI thought they were only allowed 4 wives, which one is 9th wife again?
And a teenager for that matter.
Nonsense and ingredients 😏
Thought so too!
DeleteHe has obviously divorced 4 before so that at each time he has 4 wives.
DeleteCradle snatcher, Mr cleric only you nine wives may God wroth visit you.
ReplyDeleteIslamic Cleric ni ti bawo? Pls say Ogboni worshipper cause no Islamic Cleric will marry 8 wives. Anybody who marries more than four must be worshipping Sango or Ogori magogo
ReplyDeleteYimu 🙄
DeleteHe is a divorcee. Divorce rate there is high. He will marry 4 and divorce.. marry another 4 na so the game be . Na 8 or 12 in a lifetime that way
Delete9th wife????? That man needs to be slapped
ReplyDeleteAnd the parents of the girl as well, to reset their brains.
DeleteHer parents should be ashamed that her brother acted the way a true parent would. That her brother is the real MVP👑
ReplyDeleteYes o better brother. Some parent greed doesn't have part 2.
DeleteIn fact, he should be made to slap them since he is obviously the real parent in this case. Awon iya and oko bournvita. Hungry lot.
DeleteThat cleric must have been using jazz on the women.
ReplyDeleteGreat news indeed. End time cleric,fucking paedophile
ReplyDeleteWhen I say some parents failed their kids, they will say I'm attacking or judging parents.
ReplyDeleteWhich parents in their right frame of mind will give their teenage daughter out to a sick Muslim cleric to be his 9th wife.
God bless that young man for saving his sister's life.
May greed and wickedness kill that Muslim cleric.
Shameless parents and Imam. E dey fine fresh blood to renew him jazz, they should have arrested thwm.
ReplyDeleteCleric is a pedophile that should have been sentenced to 25 years to life, the parents accesories to child trafficking and pedoplilia, 25 to life. After they expect everybody to be worshipping African parents. A lot of African parents have cursed their children’s destinies into ineffectiveness when those kids were young or messed up the kids for gain using jazz. They have “chopped their kids life with their own”, making the child to struggle. Run to Jesus, our society is occultism.
ReplyDeleteSome parents have to die for their children to have a chance at life. FACT.
ReplyDeleteNa was
ReplyDeleteNot all women are mothers
Not all men are fathers
Not all parents are parenting
It is sadly not automatic and some people are too damaged to even be in a relationship talkless of bringing children into the world
Singles shine your eyes please
Forget pocket, looks or ukwu some are irredeemable damaged goods