A former Nigerian minster has viciously attacked the Senator championing constitutional recognition of early marriage – a move which has stoked angry debate in Africa’s most populous country of about 160 million persons.

Replying Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima, who yesterday dismissed his critics as busy bodies and enemies of Islam, former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode said last night via Facebook:

“If I had any doubts that the self-confessed paedophile Senator Ahmed Sani was of the devil before today I have long since shed those doubts. Ahmed is not only evil but he is also a very sick man. In any civilised society he would be either be behind bars or he would be in a mental hospital.

“We as a people need to protect the girl-child from self-righteous sexual predators like him. He not only thrives on under-age sex and child rape but he boasts about it and seeks to justify it with his Islamic faith. He forgets that in 95 per cent of Muslim countries in the world today child-marriage, child-sex, child-porn and paedophilia are specifically banned and outlawed by law. Are those people and nations not Muslims too? Is he a better Muslim than them? Are the Muslims of southern Nigeria in Yorubaland who have collectively refused to indulge in vile practices like paedophilia, child-marriage, child-rape and child-sex and who consider such things to be an abomoniation not Muslims too? As far as I am concerned they are the true Muslims and they are far better and more civilised than Ahmed Sani’s brand.

“It is time to stand up to this monster called Yerima and those that think like him once and for all no matter what the consequences are. First he introduced political Sharia into Nigerian politics in 2001 which, a few years later, resulted in the meteroric rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the north and Boko Haram. Now he seeks to introduce and legitimise child sex and paedophilia in our country by propagating and peddling a false interpretation of Islam and bringing that beautiful faith into disrepute and opprobrium. Nothing sickens me more than this man and those that think like him and be rest assured that I and many others will call him out on this one.

“We must all stand up and say “NO MORE” to this rubbish and sheer wickedness and that “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”. We must all join our hands together and seek to protect the Nigerian girl-child whether that girl-child be a Christian, a Muslim, a pagan, a northerner or a southerner. As long as she is a human being and she is a Nigerian we must and we will speak for her, fight for her and uphold her right to be treated as a human being and not to be subjected to rape and sex abuse. This is a divine obligation because the Holy Bible says that we must ‘resist evil’ and ‘defend the weak and vulnerable’ that are amongst us. And in this case we will. Our children will not be abused and destroyed by these monsters who are lusting after them.”

•Photo shows “Paedophile Senator Ahmed Sani.”