In Abuja, adultery among men is actionable and dear. Men that belong to a social circle in the city are now more wary than ever about adultery because their circle criminalises the act and whoever commits it is liable to a fine of N100,000. The meaning is that if you don't want to incur their wrath or can ill afford N100,000 to drop for the act, please, do stay afar. The Aso Country Club is out to re-invent stronger and more peaceful family ties among the members, therefore it has defined punishment for adulterers. But you may ask how they arrive at conviction for any accused before the one should be found guilty as to pay the fine?
They agree that adultery is a big menace to marriages, therefore, a way to take away the threat to family is by clamping down on guilty members with the N100,000 fine. It might surprise you that majority of the members of the club are middle-aged men and even men with very young families.
But they are resolute on waging a fierce war against the biggest threat to marriages, launching in a commando fashion, an operation to restore sanity and family ideals.
The pioneer chairman of the club, Chidiebere Ogbaji Ferguson, says the campaign to checkmate adultery, the greatest attack on families, from spreading like wild fire, wrecking havoc and crumbling many marriages, is the motive behind forming the club and its resolution of N100,000 fine.
The club after its maiden investiture vowed to wrestle the menace of adultery to submission. He said: "We have read about so many divorce cases in FCT. Many close-knit families in the past are today operated by single parents.
"We discovered that the social factor of this city is influencing not only marriages but also families. We decided to use the club to sustain marriages, deep relationship among people that found themselves under the same roof as spouses.
"We formed the club to advance deep interpersonal relationship among us, promote good and healthy lifestyle, realize our roles as husbands and heads of our families. Ferguson, the CEO of Home Mall noted that we have stood stoutly, with our rules and regulations, against any member going the wrong way, abandoning his family and allowing adultery to tear his marriage apart.
"As I speak to you, two to three persons have paid N100,000 fine each while others have decided not to throw away such amount of money by involving themselves in any proven case of adultery that threatens their marriages.
"Some members have complained that our fight against the menace on marriage is infringing on their personal freedom, but since the only language we understand very well here is force, we decided to tell ourselves that we either join or leave the club.
"So, since the members know that adultery would kill their marriages and decided to continue to commit it, they should be ready to continue paying the club the fine of N100, 000 or stay out and enjoy their marriages and family lives.
"It is either you leave the club, join the club or find a way of becoming an artful dodger to evade the fine."
According to Mr Ferguson, the objective of the club is not limited to rectitude, as he adds, "We want to also sustain employer/employee relationship because you cannot be an employee and yet pretend while such employment is marred with frivolities. "We make our members take their jobs seriously because the way we serve people will be the way others will serve us."
"For those of us going into politics, we give them orientation to re-channel their perception and reasoning concerning this country called Nigeria. Politics must not be an all comers gold site where we go in to steal money. We will make sure that they have a rethink and bring their conscience to focus to see if they can actually help this country.”
No comments:
Post a Comment