The President, Northern Women Support Development Initiative (NWSDI), Hajiya Sa’adatu Abdullahi, has advised the federal government to give the girl child scholarship so as to encourage them go to school.
In an interview recently in Abuja, the president said by doing so, it will encourage people to take their girl child to school and stiffer punishment should be given to parents doesn’t take them to school.
She also advocated that any man that marries a woman, below the age of 18_ must make sure that she finishes her secondary school.
She said If such child doesnt finish secondary school from her parents house, the husband must sign an undertaking that she must go to school even if she is in his house.
“All the men that are marrying the small girls will now look at it that there is a huge burden on them. They must take their wives to school.
“As for the rape cases, I will advice the federal government to give capital punishment for any man that rapes a woman, be she a minor or adult or even if she is his wife.
“This is because I am a woman and come to think of it, a man that will go and defile a small girl or rape an adult must be a beast, because this thing that is created by the Almighty God is supposed to be between two people who are married.
“It is through this process that there is procreation. If you go and force yourself on somebody, then where is the love? If really, you are a human being as a man, what could be running through your head?
“You must be a sadist or a mad man, to have thought of doing that to a woman or a small girl. But I have a problem with Human Rights activists.
“When a man is being caught to have defiled a minor or even an adult, and when they say he will face capital punishment, they will quickly come up and begin to make case for his human rights.
“What of the rights of that minor or even the adult woman? Even these kidnappers, if they kidnap women they must rape her,” she said.
