A Nigerian Catholic Priest is Currently Advocating for a Law Empowering Kids to Sue Their Parents...See Details

Posted by Samuel on Wed 29th Mar, 2017 - tori.ng

A Catholic priest is making moves to advocate for a law that will effectively empower kids to sue their parents.

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Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Oluolu, a Catholic Priest, has called for a legislation that will power children who are victims of divorce, to sue their parents for damages.

The Nation reports that Oluolu, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, made the remark while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.

He decried the high rate of divorce in Nigeria and said that children were the major victims of such disagreements.

According to him, when there is divorce, it is only the man and the woman that think about themselves and they forget the children, the consequences, the pain and the burden on them (children).

“And children are not even consulted, they go ahead and say ‘look, divorce’ and as children grow up, they find themselves in a precarious situation.

“My humble idea is that if there will be a law that would permit the children when they grow up to say ‘no, I would sue my parents for subjecting us to this situation in life;

“May be, that could in one way or the other slow down this quick process of divorce that is becoming the order of the day,” he said.

Oluolu, who is the parish priest of St. Raphael Catholic Church, Rukpokwu in Obio/Akpor local government area, advised parents to exercise patience, endurance and tolerance in marriage at least for the sake of the children.

“A lot of children are suffering today because the mother and father are no longer together; there is need for patience, endurance and tolerance.”

The priest urged couples to avoid taking any action swiftly which they might regret later in life.

According to him, when you just act in a swift moment and say, “no I don’t want, especially when deep down, there are some other intervening variables, at the end of the day, sometimes you regret your actions later in life.

“You would ask yourself, ‘why did I do this?’ A simple thing that could have been solved and resolved amicably, out of temperament, it was blown up,” he said.

Oluolu, also the Spiritual Director of the Knights of St Mulumba, Mater Mesierecordia Sub-Council, Port Harcourt, however,condemned taking the children to grandparents as a result of divorce.

He said that parents should train their children by themselves and not allowing their own respective people to train them due to their selfishness that resulted in divorce.