The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi, has advocated a ban on
marriage of women below 18 years, saying most of the women
suffering from reproductive health challenges were products of
such marriages.


The emir, who spoke at a workshop organised by the Northern
Islamic Forum in Kano on Tuesday, said time had come when the
Muslim community should live by the reality of economic
recession and consequences of early marriage.


He said the era when people gave out their daughters in marriage
at early ages and asked the husbands to wait till they were ripe
was nothing but a deception.
According to Mr. Sanusi, that strategy no longer worked as it had
led to cases of divorce and other ugly situations.


The emir recounted that in the past the rich and the poor married
four wives and bore between 30 and 40 children because the
economy was not only buoyant but also because people were not
relying on government for sustenance.


He said though the harsh economic realities now make it
impossible for people to feed twice a day these days,
“unfortunately our people do not change and somebody with
virtually nothing still give birth to 20 or 30 children and this must
stop”.

Mr. Sanusi said there was a need to peg the marriage age now
because of the challenges early marriage was posing.


According to him, the marriage age in Egypt at present was 18
while that of Malaysia and Morocco were 19 and 17 respectively,
asking “why not we here urgently call for pegging of marriage
ages within Muslim Umma in Nigeria?”
He argued that since Nigeria Muslims also practice the Malikiys
School of thought as these countries, “we should follow suit and
peg our own marriage ages for our own good”.


Mr. Sanusi called on the relevant authorities to create a law that
would punish anybody that gave birth to children and allowed
them to suffer.

According to him, most of those neglected children not only
turned victims of social vices but also engage in terrorism.


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lalasticlala mynd44

Ok

Very funny! After you don enjoy your own, you don't want your people and your kid brothers from the S/Waste to enjoy their own.

Selfish man. Well what's my own? Such practice is not in the land of the riding Sun

It is only the poor northern Muslims that gives their underage daughters out to a septuagenarian in marriage.The political and elites class like SLS allow their daughters to be ripe for marriage before they are given to their male peers.

HYPO ! HYPO !!

Hypocrite..

U mean am? Abi na "eye-service" banning?..cos i know these pple wit dia love for underage pvssies

K

This is long overdue. It is not just bad but counterproductive.