 Welcome back to the breakfast here in Plastivia Africa. It's time for Today in History and I'm going back to the year 1927 to tell you a little bit about Saudi Arabia and where it all started from. You know it's mostly about the city of Jeddah but it was on this day that Britain recognized the sovereignty of Saudi. So let's start with Jeddah itself which of course is a major port city and you know initially was the capital of Saudi Arabia before it became the capital in the late 80s. So Jeddah was a major port in central Hejaz region, western Saudi Arabia and lies along the Red Sea and the west of Mecca. The principal importance of Jeddah in this whole story is that it constituted a port of Mecca and was the site where majority of Muslims back then landed while journeying to the holy city of Mecca and Medina. In 1916 Jeddah and its Turkish garrisons surrendered to the British forces. It then formed part of the kingdom of Hejaz until 1925 when it was captured by Ibn Saud and then in 1927 on this day the Treaty of Jeddah, the British recognized Saudi's sovereignty over the Hejaz and Niger regions. Jeddah eventually was incorporated into Saudi Arabia and of course in 1947 the city walls were demolished and it was a massive rapid expansion that took place at that time. After World War II Jeddah was completely modernized and expanded with the new wealth acquired by the Saudi Arabia of course from their oil and all the business that they were able to get into after their sovereignty was recognized. Mithaba was dipping and enlarged accommodate larger vessels and of course the sale of oil became the major source of the country's income back then. One of Saudi's largest cities and busiest seaports, Jeddah was also a diplomatic capital of the country and location of the Saudis Ministry of Foreign Affairs and embassies before all of this were transferred to Riyadh in the mid 1980s. So it's a story of you know Jeddah and of course you know flows into 1927 when Saudi Arabia itself was then recognized as a sovereign nation by the British. Interesting news regarding Jeddah in 1927 and that important treaty and yes good to know that Saudi Arabia has grown a long way from where they were many years ago to become one of the you know most wealthiest countries in the Middle East. Absolutely. So yes I'm talking about today in history I'm going back to the year 2005. It's a very twisted and mixed up event that happened this day in history because it was on this day in history that a convicted you know former sex offender married her victim. So at the time this lady she was a teacher her name was Mary Ket Leto-Nu. She was 35 years old and she had been having sexual relations with her student who was just 12 years old at the time. She said the student told her that he loved him. A 12-year-old boy told a 35-year-old lady a woman you know some sources say she was 24 at the time that she loved him and she was a married woman. She had four children but she began a sexual relationship with her 12-year-old students called Fili Falatu. Right? She was you know she went to prison twice she eventually was released and after she was released from prison in the year 2005 she and her yes she and her student got married about nine months later and that's because as at the time when she was sentenced to jail she was actually pregnant for her 12-year-old students. I told you this story is mixed up is messed up she was pregnant for her 12-year-old students. How long would she go to jail? Sorry? How long was she in jail? She was in jail for for for quite a while seven and a half years. She was seven and seventy. Seven and a half years she went to jail. So when she came out of jail her students who was 12-year-old at the time said he didn't want a situation where you know his child grows up under a roof with just one parents so he wanted to get married to her so you know the students and the teacher would both be training their child on that one roof. It was a very messed up story it was really really big at that time you know to see I can see the disgust on your face and it's so weird how the story has been twisted because if this was a man if the teacher was a man would not have the amount of backlash that he would have received that you basically sexually violated your student who was 12 years old saying your student loves you and you're having sexual relations you impregnated your students you know and you say okay we're out now we want to get married it should have been different but this lady eventually divorced her husband you know and got married to this man and he began to feature on so many TV shows this is just an example the picture you're seeing is an example of one of the TV shows that they you know featured in they eventually got divorced and the teacher died of cancer in 2020 it's just a very sad situation. I don't know where to start from you know but you've already mentioned one you know I don't think it would have been the same thing if it was a man. If sexes were reversed you know if it was a male teacher assaulting a 12 year old student he probably would have been jailed for 40 years or longer. You didn't say and then also you can't you can't miss the white privilege here because if it was a black teacher you know who was sexually assaulting you know a 12 year old student she definitely wouldn't get just seven years in jail. Neither come out to marry the child. A whole lifetime you know because I've seen you know stories of people who have committed less you know lesser crimes you know in the United States blacks who have been sentenced to 30 years 25 years in jail you know but having sexual relations with a 12 year olds raping a 12 year old you get seven years in jail you're bored enough to come out and you know still get married to this you know child because he's not old enough to be married 12 year when he was 19 or 20. It's it's sickening to you know hear of things like this you know but yeah yes forgive me but council got her. By the way they were they were married for for a while. See the thing about this one weird thing about the story really apart from you know this this particular one is I think the mind of the teacher needed to really have an examine this Marie Kaye because during interviews I'm asking her you know to go back in time to what happened you know when she was having sexual relations with her students she said you need to see how you know in those videos she was laughing and saying oh when she's sitting in class 80-year-old boys were looking under her skits and she would laugh and she would giggle happy that 80-year-old boys were looking on her skits in class. She's a sick person by the way. Best of luck to her and well she's late now. She's late now I mean the comment about this is that she manipulated the boy that you know when you even watch interviews you can see how sad the boy looks like the boy is clearly being manipulated and she just took advantage of this guy and was a sexual predator. Yeah so she she should have been in jail or the child should have been given to you know the government to take care of the child until the you know boy was old enough. If it's here in Nigeria of course grandma will come in there grandma as always would step in you know in that society it's totally different. You know once again white privilege and gender privilege is what I can see in the story. All right our first major conversation for today we're moving to Kaduna State where organized labor has suspended their strike to give space for dialogue. The federal government stepped in of course through the minister of labor and of course us saying that the government of Kaduna State and the the NLC would be meeting at 11 a.m. today to have a further discussion so we'll get right into that after the short break.