Actress, Stella Damasus, has added her voice to the underage marriage controversy generated in the National Assembly after Senator Ahmed Yerima from Zamfara State coerced the Upper Chamber to retain a section of the 1999 Constitution which states that “any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.”
In a video recording she pointed accusing finger at the Nigerian Senate for endorsing what she termed “slavery.”
However, she must have let her emotions take over as she spoke in the recording that she started mixing up issues. According to her, the senators are trying to make an Islamic agenda law in Nigeria, adding that they are “forcing Sharia law on the whole of Nigeria.”
While some hail her courage, she has, however, received more knocks than praises for the video.
Comments on the video criticised Stella for not knowing what she was saying and mixing up issues. One commentator pointed out that Stella could not differentiate between being from the North and a Muslim. “Because Northern senators shamefully endorsed the bill does not mean that its a Muslim agenda,” the comment read.
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