Chrisland Schools sex scandal: Another mess of a morally corrupt society

On Easter weekend, I was in Isonyin, a community in Ijebu Ode, Ogun state for an event. Alongside other colleagues, we arrived on Easter Friday for the event scheduled for Saturday morning. On arrival, we took a walk around the community as it was my first time there.

We got to a place where we saw many kids displaying their dancing skills to the DJ mix. The words coming out from the loudspeakers well positioned around the open field were terrible to the ears and should never be for children’s consumption. I later found out that that beat was put together by one DJ YK, which he called ‘Transfer Cruise Beat’.

There is one particular song, or maybe just someone’s careless words spoken in the Yoruba language that the Nigerian DJ now mixed with beats. The mix goes like… ‘ma ni ki ob* e ko lepo’, in English language, it means… ‘I will ask a female’s private part to clip together’. And that line was said repeatedly. Apparently, the voice was asking ‘is it easy for a man to have sex with a woman? Because I slept with you, you’re now disrespecting me. I will ask your private part to clip together’.

I was amazed at the way the little children excitedly and effortlessly danced and sang along to that immoral mix. They even choreographed it with their dance steps while also tapping their hands together to describe what the ‘clip’ would look like.

My friend, Tunde Eludini, and I looked ourselves in the eye, shook our heads in disappointment and we talked about how kids have really gone lose in our society today. We were equally surprised that even in the rural area, things are as worse as it is in the city.

Comedy skit makers, musicians, actors, actresses, our movies, DJs, so-called influencers, hypemen, and many others have comfortably contributed to a decaying generation all for the sake of making money. Whereas parents are the main culprit because they watch these short videos in the presence of their children and sometimes, these kids take their parents’ smartphones to watch themselves.

The sad truth is that these comedy skits, movies, music, and DJ mixes have reached every part of the country and even the continent. As long as you have a smartphone, you will come across these short videos on all social media platforms, no matter how much you try to avoid them.

Even if these children don’t have access to their parents’ video content, they have classmates in school who sing some of these songs ignorantly, they walk on the streets and hear other kids talk, and they attend parties with their parents and guardians where these songs are played. They even watch their parents excitedly dance to the beat and sing along all in the name of having fun, ‘I can’t kill myself’ or ‘wahala no dey finish’.

That was not the first time I will hear that DJ mix, and that was equally not the first time I will see kids dance to it in the presence of their parents. These songs are played at school parties or at children’s birthdays. The evil these DJs are doing to these little kids is immeasurably huge.

We are losing it, or in actual reality, we have lost it as a society and it will only take a conscious and collective effort to redirect the destiny and future of these children, otherwise, we are sitting on a sexual time bomb that is already showing signs of an explosion.

The incident at Chrisland Schools is just one of the outcomes of the seeds we planted as a society, and we’re still planting more and more negative seeds. When bad things happen, it is easy to shift blame and very difficult to take responsibility. But we are all responsible for this. The parents, entertainers, celebrities, school management, government, all of us. Today it is Chrisland Schools, tomorrow it will be another one.

That video was horrible, shameful, and disgusting to say the least. It is a result of a failed generation captured in full glare for the parents to see the kind of child they’ve been nurturing and preparing for society. Even the four boys involved too displayed their potential and sent a message out for the society to watch out for bigger things to come. Four boys and one girl all below the age of 14 involving in sex rendezvous, recorded it, and shared the video for the world to see. It is a sorry situation that can be traced to poor parenting and a morally corrupt society.

That girl’s performance in that viral video does not depict a rape scene. It shows a little girl who has gone wild, is ready to explore, and now has another opportunity to have fun. The video shows a girl enjoying herself, and obviously not for the first time.

In a rape scene, the victim must be seen fighting back, screaming, and showing signs they’re being forced against their will, but that video was a complete opposite that brought to the public the failure and negligence of the parents and school.

How did the girl get inside that room, and such an act was carried out without fear of a teacher barging in? How come no teacher or other member of the school admin saw the single girl leaving her room on the 11th floor and entering a room full of boys on the 4th floor? Were the teachers busy taking pictures and selfies? Were they enjoying themselves somewhere else? Only Chrisland Schools will tell.

This very act was not in any of the children’s homes or under their parents, it happened under the supervision of the school in faraway Dubai, that is why I am also holding the school responsible just like I have done the parents. Especially when the school once had a staff that molested an 11-months old child. So how are we sure that there are not many other possible sex scandals that may have been buried under the carpet in that school?

We need to consciously do more as parents and as a society to protect the future of our children and that of the next generation. Parents must understand that wherever their eyes do not reach, there is a potential danger for their underage children, especially if it’s a distant place. We must stop putting the lives of these kids at risk all in the name of giving them the best. As I have always said, you cannot outsource parenting.

Our DJs must learn to respect the right of children by not exposing them to immoral music that is meant for adults. They must stop playing songs with vulgar language at kids’ birthdays, and children/school parties. School management and parents alike must ensure such music are not played at their events. Comedy skit makers must do comedy without encouraging sexual conduct and money ritual acts. Our musicians must start giving us music for the soul, music that will motivate and encourage the spirit, and not all this sex and money nonsense I hear and see everywhere.

Above all, parents must not expose their underage children to all these videos and immoral online content.

Israel is a Nigerian journalist and can be reached via [email protected]