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Speaker 1: Nigeria’s superstar actress who has been in the news since

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she got married to a man many said was old

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enough to be her grandfather, Regina Daniels, on Sunday early

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morning night revealed that she was married to the Nigeria

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Senator representing Delta North Prince. Shehenidu n Woko aka ned

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en Woko as a miner at the age of seventeen.

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Her statement that allegedly accused the serving Senator ned en

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Woko of a parent serious crime of child abuse, raping

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of minor, child molestation and forced child marriage. Because Nigeria

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constitution stipulates eighteen years of age for someone to be

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considered old enough to be able to consent to marriage

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or sexual activities, and any sexual activity with a minor,

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the older person is presumed, according to the Nigeria Constitution,

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as a criminal suspect who took advantage of the minor

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and liable for child abuse and other related crimes. Although

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Senator ned en Woko is a Muslim by religion, a

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careful study of the nuns Nigeria laws indicated that Islamic

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law is only binding on Muslim and Muslim and not

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Muslim and Christian or people from other religions. We are

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also aware that both of them are from Delta State

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in the South South geopolitical zone of Nigeria that is

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predominantly Christians, that practices eighteen years as a statutory and

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customary age requirement for someone to be considered old enough

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to give his or her voluntary consent for marriage and

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other forms of sexual activities. This last month, October, there

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was a heated debate at the Nigeria Red Chamber of

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the National Assembly where the senators bemoaned the high rates

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of child abuse and defilement of miners in Nigeria and

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recommended a stiffer punishment of life imprisonment for offenders. Specifically,

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according to the Daily Post newspaper publication on October twenty first,

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twenty twenty five, the Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District,

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Adams Oshio Mole, said, defilement of a minor should be

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different from that of rape. For a miner. This is

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a kid that is not capable of consenting or otherwise

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and whose life can be destroyed almost permanently. Those involved

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in defilement should suffer great punishment. I propose twenty years

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imprisonment for whoever is found culpable for this crime without

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any option of fine, because I have seen cases of

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boys and girls under five and ten years old being

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defiled by adults, he said. The proposal was however, defeated

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by the majority in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly.

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Following the defeat of the bill, Senator Mohammada Damu Alliero

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Kelly Central proposed stiffer punishment of life imprisonment for any

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man or woman found wanting in the Act. I want

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to propose that the punishment for defilement for miners be

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life imprisonment, whether it’s a man or woman found culpable.

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According to Regina Daniels, before she became the wife of

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Senator ned en Woco, she was not into drugs or

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a drug addict. She alleged that it was Senator ned

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en Woko who influenced and forced her into the habits

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of taking drugs in order for she to be able

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to satisfy the senator’s sexual desire or meet up with

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his sexual pleasure. Verbatim, Regina Daniels said, dearest ex husband,

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thanks for breaking the crown you put on my head.

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No one knew aslike we did, and I trusted you

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with all of me, even with my sex stape, which

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I pray never sees the light of day. Foolish me.

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When I married you at seventeen, was I on drugs?

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I thank God for time. My name is ruined for now,

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but I will rewrite my story. That narrative will be

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dead and gone. Now that I’ve let the one thing

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you had on me out, what else? It’s time to

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fight with all of me in court. I’m not backing

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down now. Ned How could you lie so openly and

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without even small remorse. You know my family has absolutely

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nothing to do with this. You have always tried to

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cut them off because of the bond we share, and

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now you are trying to make them look bad for

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no reason. Fine, I did drugs, so what is that

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even the issue between us? The moment we had a fight,

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you rushed to the public shouting drugs, drugs, drugs, because

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you knew it would make a perfect story for the media,

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something dramatic enough to distract everyone from the real issue.

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You want to find a reason to arrest everyone around

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me so that I will have no one left beside me,

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no friend, no support, no safe place to turn to. Then,

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when I’m completely isolated and broken. I will be forced

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to come back to you because I will have nowhere

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else to go. That has always been your strategy, break

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people down, make them weak and powerless, and then have

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your way with them. But guess what, it’s not going

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to work this time, not any more. You say you

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want me to go for rehab, but you are the

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the same ned who always wanted me high because, in

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your words, lem sexier when I’m high. You like me

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that way because it made me wild and romantic, exactly

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how you wanted me to be. Why don’t you also

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tell them how you force yourself on me whenever I

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say no? Why don’t you tell them how you lock

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me up, seize my phones, and suddenly declare me mentally

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unstable the moment I say I no longer want to

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be in this relationship, But once I change my mind

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just to get out of that locked room, suddenly LEM

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fine again, lem no longer mentally unstable and apparently not

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in need of rehab anymore. Why don’t you also tell

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them that all your wives and ex wives are on drugs?

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And can you be kind enough to explain to them

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why that is? Why don’t you also tell them how

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you lock me up and doctors to inject me with

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drugs meant for people with bipolar disorder. Why don’t you

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tell them how you take my phones for weeks because

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you hate that I talk to my family a lot.

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You have never seen me act incoherent, stumble, or lose control, sugg.

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Just stop. Every problem we have had started when I

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no longer wanted you, whether sober or even high. Stop

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using the drugs narrative to create distraction. Tell people the truth.

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I understand, Shah. You are feeling rejected and hurt, and

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you are struggling to make peace with the fact that

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it’s all over. Let me make this very clear. No

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matter how much you think you spent on me, it

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can never equal the value of the time I gave you,

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my prime years, my energy, and the career opportunities I

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sacrificed while being with you. And for the record, I

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would have filed for divorce long ago if there was

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ever a legal marriage between us. We were never married

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in any court of law and no documents were signed.

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Leave me alone, ned, Marriage is not by force. Love

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is not by force. Stop trying to control what no

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longer belongs to you. As one lady, bring in it you.

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The news in a mortgage is somewhere