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SonofElElyonRet:


Your post is extremely irresponsible and gross misinformation.

The marriage act actually says 21 years and the consent of parents is required if the person is below 21 ! The marriage act states that the consent of the person getting married is necessary and by law anyone under 18 can not consent to marriage.. it follows therefore that parental consent to marriage of a below 18 person is vain immaterial and indeed criminal. you are nothing but an ignorant person capable of causing great harm with your misleading post . It creates the impression that you are most likely a paedophile since I can't fathom why anyone would argue in favour of marriage to a minor

I will ignore your ad hominems. Please cite the section of the ACT that says that he consent of the person under age of 21 is required. Section 18 of the ACT says that a written affidavit of the father, or mother if the father is dead or not of sound mind or of the legal guardian if the mother and mother is sufficient to marry a person under the age of 21. Please provide evidence to the contrary.

Chinjo2:

Globally, a 16 years old is regarded as a minor.

no law stops anyone from getting married at any age it is sexual relationship outside of marriage with a girl below 18 that is a crime not marriage

Timoleon:
I will ignore your ad hominems. Please cite the section of the ACT that says that he consent of the person under age of 21 is required. Section 18 of the ACT says that a written affidavit of the father, or mother if the father is dead or not of sound mind or of the legal guardian if the mother and mother is sufficient to marry a person under the age of 21. Please provide evidence to the contrary.

So you can marry off a person without her consent My goodness... I will not quote any section. You go find it. That's trite law and even a law undergraduate knows this... golly !!! How can you even argue that a person can be married off without her consent Consent must be freely given by the person getting married and not under duress or fraudulently obtained...

p.s. Section 3. Sub section 1(d) matrimonial causes act is explicit enough
The child rights act is also explicit enough. Child Rights Act (part III, Section 21)
No person under the age of 18 years is capable of contracting a valid marriage, and accordingly a marriage so contracted is null and void and of no effect whatsoever.

The article under should enlighten you the more...

https://nigeria.action4justice.org/legal_areas/womens-rights-focusing-on-marriage-rights/right-to-freely-enter-into-marriage/

A region where everybody is a billionaire ? How possible hunger is making them to do this ?

SonofElElyonRet:


So you can marry off a person without her consent My goodness... I will not quote any section. You go find it. That's trite law and even a law undergraduate knows this... Dgolly !!! How can you even argue that a person can be married off without her consent Consent must be freely given by the person getting married and not under duress or fraudulently obtained...

p.s. Section 3. Sub section 1(d) matrimonial causes act is explicit enough
The child rights act is also explicit enough. Child Rights Act (part III, Section 21)
No person under the age of 18 years is capable of contracting a valid marriage, and accordingly a marriage so contracted is null and void and of no effect whatsoever.

The article under should enlighten you the more...

https://nigeria.action4justice.org/legal_areas/womens-rights-focusing-on-marriage-rights/right-to-freely-enter-into-marriage/

The child rights act does not invalidate the marriage act. You are letting the morality of the topic beguile your attention to detail. That's why you keep going and hominem. That a lawyer defends a criminal in court doesn't mean he himself is a criminal. His job is to help his client interprete the law.

Even the article clearly states that not all states of the federation has adopted the child rights act inti their legislation. Here's an article that clearly state that despite the fact that Imo state was one of the first to adopt the child rights act, underaged marriage there is still one of the highest in the state and the reason is because the constitution has that loophole that a parent can marry an underaged child off. Wether it is moral is a different quest.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/17/nigeria-child-marriage-violates-girls-rights

peekspot:


https://punchng.com/man-arrested-for-giving-underage-daughters-hand-in-marriage/

There is no difference between Igbos and Hausa yet they don't like each other

LegendHero:
Baba don sell pikin to afford food to eat.

Poverty is damn crazy but when wickedness add to it, it is disastrous.

You first sold your 14 year old daughter to a 70 years old man, she escaped and came back home. Then you went ahead to sell her off to another 34 years old.

That young girl eye don see shege.

Shout-out to the P!MP of the year.

watsonclyde:

So everyone that speaks the truth about the North is automatically an ignorant person. I always see the hatred you people exhibit towards the Igbos and I'm like, WTF is wrong with you guys. So let me educate you a little. I'm not from the East and I'm not Igbo. I'm a typical Yoruba man but I don't hate any tribe or judge them so stop this rubbish Lad.

You don't hate or judge but something happened in South East, you're dragging northerners. If that's not judging or hating in your book, I don't know what it is.
If you are reading about this one, your brain should have told you that there are probably many more that didn't make it to the news. Or, is that not the reason why baby factories are spreading like harmattan fire in the "south"? Or, you're not a southerner too?

Timoleon:
The child rights act does not invalidate the marriage act. You are letting the morality of the topic beguile your attention to detail. That's why you keep going and hominem. That a lawyer defends a criminal in court doesn't mean he himself is a criminal. His job is to help his client interprete the law.

Even the article clearly states that not all states of the federation has adopted the child rights act inti their legislation. Here's an article that clearly state that despite the fact that Imo state was one of the first to adopt the child rights act, underaged marriage there is still one of the highest in the state and the reason is because the constitution has that loophole that a parent can marry an underaged child off. Wether it is moral is a different quest.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/17/nigeria-child-marriage-violates-girls-rights

You are spreading falsehood.. the constitution has no such loophole. 21 years is the age under marriage act and parental consent is required for those under 21. I quoted the matrimonial causes act as well as the child rights act... the matrimonial causes act and the child rights act are in force in the South and those who flout them commit a crime... having sex with anyone under 18 is statutory rape and people have been sentenced to life imprisonment in Lagos for this. You are just talking like a paedophile... how can any sane person say that you don't need the consent of the bride in marriage disgraceful... the north obviously argues that their religion allows them to marry underaged girls and that is being addressed. Give me an example of anyone who has married a woman below 18 in a marriage registry in the South... you are dangerously ignorant or deliberately spreading falsehood...

Urheadmaster:
Is poverty the reason naughteners are getting married to an underage in their region

Which rich northerner has given out his underaged daughter in marriage?

goodyvin02:
What is it with African men and having children when they know they don’t want kids or can’t care for them….

Why bring those kids just to suffer them

The thing dey tire me o

SonofElElyonRet:


You are spreading falsehood.. the constitution has no such loophole. 21 years is the age under marriage act and parental consent is required for those under 21. I quoted the matrimonial causes act as well as the child rights act... the matrimonial causes act and the child rights act are in force in the South and those who flout them commit a crime... having sex with anyone under 18 is statutory rape and people have been sentenced to life imprisonment in Lagos for this. You are just talking like a paedophile... how can any sane person say that you don't need the consent of the bride in marriage disgraceful... the north obviously argues that their religion allows them to marry underaged girls and that is being addressed. Give me an example of anyone who has married a woman below 18 in a marriage registry in the South... you are dangerously ignorant or deliberately spreading falsehood...

when you feel that to make your point you have to insult the other person know you are losing the plot. This thread is about marriage not rape. The article I referenced did talk about imo state being one of the states with a high child marriage rate and that's an article from human rights watch. It's up to you to hold on to whatever you believe. I'm done.

Hypocrites,HALLELUJAH

Timoleon:
when you feel that to make your point you have to insult the other person know you are losing the plot. This thread is about marriage not rape. The article I referenced did talk about imo state being one of the states with a high child marriage rate and that's an article from human rights watch. It's up to you to hold on to whatever you believe. I'm done.

There you go again... matrimonial causes act and child rights act talk about age for marriage and need for consent of the one getting married which you said wasn't necessary... my reference to rape was because an under 18 can not legally consent and therefore the purported marriage is invalid and sex with such minor is statutory rape ... i am also done

Bullfallo:
I do not believe this. Igbo man will not give under age daughter to marriage. The daughter is lying and might not be happy or in support of the man he married to. That is the problem here. No father will be happy that is daughter is been maltreated.

Just read what you posted again. So Igbo men are not humans again abi? You know every Igbo man on the planet abi? Tribalism has finished you

What sort of wickedness is that?
Forcing your 16 year old daughter to marry against her wishes!.
Has the man's poverty gotten to that level?
Men who force their teenage daughters into marriage against their will,are often those who lived a life of Scoundrel and hooliganism right into their thirties and forties,lazying about, with nothing meaningful doing for themselves.
When they manage to marry and have children,they see the girls as a ticket to escape from poverty; and so would not mind giving them out at very early ages against their will to suitors.
Many are not worth being a parent at all.

This has to stop in Nigeria. Sexual molestation of a girl child in the name of marriage.