...Before Pulling and Stabbing the Dagger: A Sad Reality of Our Time
In July 2013, a woman by the name Maryam Yahaya, 17, slit her husband's throat on their matrimonial bed to death in Jos, where I was raised. This is coming a month after their wedding. This girl happened to be my student. I taught her Geography and Mathematics for years before she was married to Lawal, 26, the deceased. Earlier when she was arrested, it all went viral that the girl was forced to marry Lawal. A blatant lie even the Devil can't buy. We, her teachers, their parents and all the people in the mini market where she sells food and met her husband knew of their lovely relationship for long. So no one could even listen to such excuse back home. Maybe that was why, a month after "a body" intervened, took her with "them," she was captured in the media given another bizarre excuse for her act, that "she did what she did because of an excessive sexual demand from Lawal." A beautifully made allegation which one could hardly debunk. Today, Marya...