Saunsi said his daughter, who represented him at the BBOG
movement’s third anniversary lecture for missing Chibok girls in Abuja last
Friday, said the girl is a strange being.
The monarch in a video message that introduced the young
lady before she presented the paper on his behalf, said it was wrong for any
man to disrespect a lady.
He said, “Although I won’t be there in person, I decided to
send not my son but my daughter, Shaheeda to represent me.
“Let me tell you something about the young lady who is going
to read my speech. Shaheeda is a graduate of African Leadership Academy in
South Africa and a graduate from New York University as a Biology major.
“But long before she went to African Leadership Academy,
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,” he said of
his daughter, Shaheeda.
According to the royal father, his daughter is the type that
would not watch any man subject her to any form of maltreatment in the name of
marriage.
His words, “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.
“As you will see when she presents this paper and maybe if
she has the time to speak her own mind, those who are opposed to my views and
those who think that I am a problem have a much bigger problem to deal with in
the next generation of Sanusis.
Sanusi, a former CBN boss said those who have been attacking
him for speaking the truth should buckle up as his children who are coming up
seem to be far more radical, outspoken and fearless than him.
He said, “They are far more radical, they are more
progressive, they are far more committed, they are far more fearless.
“So, maybe it is time for us to address these issues before
those group of tigers come to the scene,” the Emir recalled in the video
message shortly before his daughter read out the paper.
By Ameh Comrade Godwin
