The ex Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria and now the present Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has revealed his plans of banning polygamy.

According to the Emir, he alleged that polygamy has a connection with poverty and terrorism. He said further that Muslims marry more than one wife because they are allowed to and end up taking 4 wives who might in turn produce 20 children that would not be trained through education and some will turn out to be terrorists. Read what he wrote below:

Those of us in the [mainly Muslim] north have all seen the economic consequences of men who are not capable of maintaining one wife, marrying four. They end up producing 20 children, not educating them, leaving them on the streets, and they end up as thugs and terrorists”

he said.
The Emir also noted that this new Law will make domestic violence illegal amongst other things. He said:

“The law will address what Islam says on marriage, it will outlaw forced marriages, it will make domestic violence illegal, it will put in conditions that you need to fulfil before you can marry a second wife, it will spell out the responsibilities of a father beyond producing a child.

It is a big law which covers a whole range of issues from consent to marriage, to maintenance to divorce, to maintenance of children and inheritance. It will be the first time in northern Nigeria that a Muslim law on personal status will be codified.”