Umaru Sanda writes: How I got a parent arrested so their daughter stays in school
My dad married off my sisters when they were just children (in their early teens). I was probably not born at the time or too young.
But my dad, who is a Mallam (an Islamic teacher), was doing this to save himself from hellfire.
He knew that anything these girls did in the house was going to be on his head. At the time he allowed it, it was…