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pelted on the backs of these young girls. She would receive calls and messages that made her whole
body recoil and ask her if this was worth it. After all, she never wanted to serve in the north.

On a foggy Friday evening, her life took a turn she would live to regret forever.
A message popped up in her mobile phone, her father was kidnapped and would be released only if she
dropped the fight for these girls and head out of the state completely. Apparently, men like Alhaji Yunu-
sa were powerful men who had the vileness to go beyond the ordinary in pursuit of what they wanted.
She had made a choice that had changed her life forever.

As she sat in front of this window thirty years later, the guilt still tore at her. She had made a
choice and girls like Amina had to bear the brunt of societal decade and cultural depravity. She was a
coward who wore a cape, and still she looks out the window wondering who will help her relive her life
and save girls like Amina from the pangs of injustice.
Ogbonna, Ugochukwu O.
Jos, Nigeria
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