The Advocate

By Ikechukwu Joseph

It was a bloody night. The campus woke up to a horror sight of blood and lumps of flesh littering the streets. "They have broken a blood covenant and must pay with their blood," was the song of the dreaded Daughters of Jezebel. It was a night of retaliation and vengeance. It was like a war between the females and the males. While the DOJ (Daughters of Jezebel) were completely females, the PF (Pirates Fraternity) were predominantly males. The dread of DOJ stems from the origin of their name, Jezebel, a king's wife who usurped the position of the king. A woman who forcefully took other people's land and gave it to her feeble husband, the king. Her evil life ended tragically.
The school authorities invited the police to investigate the mayhem. The dead bodies were evacuated and road cleaned up of blood and all the barricades... The Advocate (Amanda Series Book 3) saw Amanda and her recruits in campus stir up the hornet nest by their campaigns for human rights, especially women and children's rights. The fishing community, the normadic herdsmen and the farmers in the rural villages were their target. It was another war. The fetish doctors, the Bushmen hunters, snake charmers, the pirates at sea, the hungry sharks and the raging stormy weather fought hard to stop them. Actions of Daughters of Jezebel, drug warlords, pirates and Amanda's past threatened the adventure but Amanda's guardian angel was at hand to rescue the perceived "Aliens." This story will blow your mind. Good for coming of age, young adults, new adults and even adults. Get your copy today and share the good news

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ikechukwu Joseph
• Release date: Feb 29, 2024

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The Advocate

(Amanda Series Book Three)

By

Ikechukwu Joseph

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the Authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead is coincidental

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The Advocate

(Amanda Series Book Three)

Ikechukwu Joseph

Published by Ikechukwu Joseph at PublishDrive

Copyright 2024 Ikechukwu Joseph

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Appreciation

Appendix A

About The Author

Authors Contact

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Chapter One

Endurance Daniels was the daughter of the chief executive of the popular newspaper, The Truth. Her mother was also the director of Foreverleaks, a whistleblowing online outfit. ForeverLeaks.com was set up to fight against the ills of child trafficking, expose legislations that relegate childrens and womens rights to the background. It was also to promote human rights and girl child education.

Endurance has grown over the years under her parents shadows and ordeals. She lived a life of public exposure and scrutiny, a life full of popularity, anxiety, unnecessary exposure for a child her age. Within her were fears and without were foes. She wanted none of that again. So, during time to register for Federal High School she decided to go far away from her home in the south. She had heard of the game reserves, historical caves, geographical features of the plateau and more. In making her choice of schools she chose Bah Federal High School, Bauchi in the north as her first and second choices. After taking the Common Entrance General Examinations the result showed she scored the highest in her center. She scored three hundred and eighty five over four hundred. Endurance was very happy that her dreams have come true. But her happiness was short-lived when she realized that she cannot school in her dream location. Endurance was refused scholarship because she is a girl even though she came first. The local people in that vicinity were not receptive to girl child education due to religious beliefs, hence the hostility they show to anyone who promotes it. Going there will be risky and she might suffer the same fate that befell Malala, the Nobel Prize winner who was shot for advocating girl child education. Malala was hurt at a tender age and had to be flown abroad to study in the United Kingdom to save her life. Little Endurance wondered whether there was anywhere in the world where there was peace.

Mum I desired to visit Yankari Games Reserve to see the wild animals like lions in their natural habitat. Hot spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater that rises from the Earth's crust. Also visit the rocky hills for geological rock types, the Biu Plateau, a highland area in North Eastern Nigeria containing many recently extinct volcanoes, the caves and other places of interest but now...

"This resistance to girl child education is against the UN's child's right to freedom to free state-paid education. My daughter you deserve the best. Anything good for you!

Amanda opened a book and read to her daughter from the international treaty convention on the Rights of the Child:

"The Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international treaty specifically recognizing and protecting the rights of children. This means that all of the countries signing it have agreed on important rights that children must be guaranteed, so that they can grow up with access to education and healthcare, and can participate in the life and decisions of their families and communities. The Convention is based on four major principles:

Non-discrimination: All children, everywhere in the world, have the rights described by the Convention, wherever they come from, and whatever their characteristics and situations.

The best interests of the child: When making decisions, adults must above all consider how children will be affected, and must do what is best for them.

The right to survive and develop: All children have the right to life, and governments shall ensure their survival and development.

Childrens views: Children have the right to express themselves freely on all subjects concerning them. Their views are to be taken into account in a manner appropriate to their age and maturity."

The Rights of the Child defines a child as any human person who