A yoruba magistrate court judge recently pronounced judgement on a divorce lawsuit where the judge summarily dismissed and described an Igbo custom in vile language.

The Igbo custom in contention is that a man who has not paid the bride price of a woman he has a child or children with can lose that child or children to another man who pays the bride price of the woman. The child or children will essentially bear the name of the man who pays the bride price.

Is this a general custom in Igbo Land?

If this case was held in an Igbo courtroom would the judge rule the same way the Yoruba jude ruled?

Every Judge will rule according to the Constitution. Igbo or Yoruba culture is not recognized by the Constitution.

Why should such a materialistic thing such as non payment of bride price determines who owns a child?

This shows the importance and emphasis the tribe put on money. Not surprising anyways coming from a people who sells/kill their mothers for money. Wicked and rubbish people

Magistrate court has no business with traditional marriage. The dissolved marriage must have been entered in the court. In the that case, I believe the woman is wrong by bringing bride price into it as it's not required. However, mentioning Igbo tradition by the boy magistrate is unnecessary, out of point, and only reflects the alarming proportion of Igbo obsession among Yorubas and judicial malpractice that exist there. Same reason we shouldn't be one country.

Bride price is the standard of Igbo traditional marriage and will remain so forever, irrespective of the opinion of a some demented, poorly raised cavemen.

I don't know the rationale behind it, maybe to punish irresponsible fathers but the owner of the child in Igbo land is the biological father

Dpatriotng:
A yoruba magistrate court judge recently pronounced judgement on a divorce lawsuit where the judge summarily dismissed and described an Igbo custom in vile language.

The Igbo custom in contention is that a man who has not paid the bride price of a woman he has a child or children with can lose that child or children to another man who pays the bride price of the woman. The child or children will essentially bear the name of the man who pays the bride price.

Is this a general custom in Igbo Land?

If this case was held in an Igbo courtroom would the judge rule the same way the Yoruba jude ruled?

Not just Igboland most South South too

There was a reason Davido married chioma so he can bury his late son

Two governors of rivers state are from Igbo Father's when their mother married the rivers man that adopted them... I won't mention their names here

One is even denying igbos now... Funny thing is his house is on the road named after the other one lmao


Asari is from Abia his mother married a kalabari man

Unlike igbos ( who are primitive in this sense) rivers men don't care if you have given birth to or not they would marry you

Jbleenk:
Why should such a materialistic thing such as non payment of bride price determines who owns a child?

This shows the importance and emphasis the tribe put on money. Not surprising anyways coming from a people who sells/kill their mothers for money. Wicked and rubbish people

It is not about money the tradition is to discourage ladies and boys from giving birth outside marriage or in their father's house.
In your culture a mother can have 7 children with 7 different men that is not encouraged in Igbo culture.

paramakina202:


It is not about money the tradition is to discourage ladies and boys from giving birth outside marriage or in their father's house.
In your culture a mother can have 7 children with 7 different men that is not encouraged in Igbo culture.

so money is the only thing required to claim a child

No wonder u are d most jailed tribe in d world

Nice contributions so far

Godwin4444:
so money is the only thing required to claim a child

No wonder u are d most jailed tribe in d world

Bride price means more than money dont be an ode.
Paying of bride price means you are legally married to the woman but I am not surprise you came from a culture that does not value marriage.
You guys start impregnating your first girlfriend and become a father at the age of 17 that is how you guys role.

Godwin4444:
so money is the only thing required to claim a child

No wonder u are d most jailed tribe in d world

Is that all you could understand from his explanation?
And where did he say money is the only thing.
Your hatred for anything igbo will finish you people one day.

JAMO84:
Every Judge will rule according to the Constitution. Igbo or Yoruba culture is not recognized by the Constitution.

Well said

paramakina202:


Bribe price means more than money dont be an ode.
Paying of bride price means you are legally married to the woman but I am not surprise you came from a culture that does not value marriage.
You guys start impregnating your first girlfriend and become a father at the age of 17 that is how you guys role.

u igbos have to understand that your culture is inhumane, barbaric, wicked, vile n any other bad grammar that can b used

Godwin4444:
u igbos have to understand that your culture is inhumane, barbaric, wicked, vile n any other bad grammar that can b used

So said someone from a culture that practice Abubaku where the kings are buried with his servants and new King eats the heart of the dead king as a ritual before he is enthroned.What an animalistic culture.

How will a man allow children who are not his biological children to be named after him just because he paid a bride price?

You may reap where you didn't sow and go undetected but not in the case of children that are not biologically yours! It will come back to hurt you in the future.

An adage says; if a home is enjoying peace, it is probably because the bastard in that home has not fully grown.
The man that allowed such nonsense should watch out.

Jbleenk:
Why should such a materialistic thing such as non payment of bride price determines who owns a child?

This shows the importance and emphasis the tribe put on money. Not surprising anyways coming from a people who sells/kill their mothers for money. Wicked and rubbish people

What you dont understand is beyond your small brain. What that culture entails is to discourage death beat fathers who goes around giving birth to children without legal backup. It is to encourage marriage than coupling that is prevalent in Yorubaland.
Here in my estate, a Yoruba lady that I asked about her husband corrected me by saying he is her boyfriend and not her husband.
These are couple living together, going to church together using the same aso ebi like married couples, yet not legally married.
Your culture promotes promiscuities with bastard children littered everywhere, You wonder why Yorubaland is so infested with agberosm, while that of Igbo encourages responsibility.
Yorubas and Igbos are poles apart in worldview and understanding.
You guys should restrict your randy pricks to your sisters and leave our sisters alone. Bloody bigot tribe.

paramakina202:


So said someone from a culture that practice Abubaku where the kings are buried with his servants and new King eats the heart of the dead king as a ritual before he is enthroned.What an animalistic culture.

Yorubas have allowed politics to so make them hate Igbos. Imagine attacking our culture and tradition. I hope we get a separate country soon from these wicked fellows.

Biafrannuke:
Magistrate court has no business with traditional marriage. The dissolved marriage must have been entered in the court. In the that case, I believe the woman is wrong by bringing bride price into it as it's not required. However, mentioning Igbo tradition by the boy magistrate is unnecessary, out of point, and only reflects the alarming proportion of Igbo obsession among Yorubas and judicial malpractice that exist there. Same reason we shouldn't be one country.

Bride price is the standard of Igbo traditional marriage and will remain so forever, irrespective of the opinion of a some demented, poorly raised cavemen.

Honestly, I see reason why Igbos should not belong in same country with these folks.

A learned Judge making sweeping statements about a people's culture is just an indication of his infantile training, possibly a flagrant display of his ethnicities especially in this era of political forgery.

He is talking about a culture that was established in the absence of biological science and paternity test.

That culture simply says that any child that comes from a married woman belongs to that marriage. Its is not just that the husband is the father, it is also that he cannot reject the child. Where a woman is unmarried, the child belongs to her fathers house.

This culture is single handedly responsible for the fact that we do not have bastards in our society. There is no child that does not belong somewhere, we do not have street kids, living on their own and roaming the streets. Even our orphans have extended family.
For a learned judge to open his mouth an utter such insult on over 20 million people with out any repercussion says so much about the state of Nigerian Judiciary.

The case he was deciding was between a man and woman who are unmarried, not in court and not traditionally. Even the woman giving the children the new husbands name, is not according to Igbo culture. So the judge had no reason to be judging Igbo culture at a magistrate Court. Moreover, the Nigerian law still stipulates that children belong to the man but not to the woman that gave birth to them in 21st century. Is that not evil, mean, inhuman, demonic? That's before we talk about how evil, backward, and recalcitrant a culture is, when it encourages its male demons to make false love proposal to young girls, even its daughters, get them pregnant and Run away, leaving a helpless girl with a life burden of raising a helpless bastard child that she was not prepared for. A life sentence to suffering and poverty. Ask any Nigerian girl about Yoruba demons, like Sanwolu, who is still denying the child he left in Warri! The petrifying part is that demons like Sanwolu, know they can comeback any time they like to claim fatherhood without consequence, thanks to Yoruba culture and Nigeria's archaic patrichial laws. Not so in Igboland, Not so in the Western Society, child bearing comes with responsibilities which must be met either way.

The judge do not rule against Igbo culture, as he doesn't know about such culture.
The woman presented the culture as a defence to her case, which the judge rightly threw out such defence.
Any judge either Igbo, kanuri, yoruba, Fulani, etc would have ruled same way and passed similar comment.
The ruling or comment is not different from what different Justice's have said on female child exclusion from inheritance.
The judge said a culture can't take away a child from an intimacy of 2 consenting adults, meaning, since she wasn't forced into the relationship against her will, there is no way for the culture to prevent the man from enjoying the results of their relationship

mdimefields:

Yorubas have allowed politics to so make them hate Igbos. Imagine attacking our culture and tradition. I hope we get a separate country soon from these wicked fellows.

Don't mind the Tinubu Yoruba muslim camp that strive in hatred for the Igbos.

Dpatriotng:
A yoruba magistrate court judge recently pronounced judgement on a divorce lawsuit where the judge summarily dismissed and described an Igbo custom in vile language.

The Igbo custom in contention is that a man who has not paid the bride price of a woman he has a child or children with can lose that child or children to another man who pays the bride price of the woman. The child or children will essentially bear the name of the man who pays the bride price.

Is this a general custom in Igbo Land?

If this case was held in an Igbo courtroom would the judge rule the same way the Yoruba jude ruled?

The constitution of the country supersedes every customs and traditions. It's not every time you okay victim.

In the first place, there's no marriage to dissolve as the parties are not married.
Where I come from in Igbo land, marriage takes place ONLY when the BRIDE PRICE is paid, nothing more. And when an irresponsible man and woman decides to give birth without any marriage, the children belongs to the woman's family, not even a future husband. Any child(ren) born by a woman that's not married can never be given to any other man.

My place is Nnewi south LGA, Anambra state.

The Court is right. Even in our Palaces, same judgment applies.

That's the custom. Iko anaghi ewe nwa.

However, if the husband wasn't responsible for the pregnancy and haven't paid the bride price before the child was born, the child belongs to the woman, natal father and her people.

JAMO84:
Every Judge will rule according to the Constitution. Igbo or Yoruba culture is not recognized by the Constitution.

This is a customary case. Nigeria has no law to this effect. We have constitutional customary courts in Nigeria to deal with issues like this and the judgment was right.

Omo ale go plenty bi that

Dpatriotng:
A yoruba magistrate court judge recently pronounced judgement on a divorce lawsuit where the judge summarily dismissed and described an Igbo custom in vile language.

The Igbo custom in contention is that a man who has not paid the bride price of a woman he has a child or children with can lose that child or children to another man who pays the bride price of the woman. The child or children will essentially bear the name of the man who pays the bride price.

Is this a general custom in Igbo Land?

If this case was held in an Igbo courtroom would the judge rule the same way the Yoruba jude ruled?

Share the link to the judgement pls

Jbleenk:
Why should such a materialistic thing such as non payment of bride price determines who owns a child?

This shows the importance and emphasis the tribe put on money. Not surprising anyways coming from a people who sells/kill their mothers for money. Wicked and rubbish people

This is why your tribe has no respect for the institution called marriage.

Almost all Yoruba men that I know impregnated their women and started cohabiting without bride price.

In igboland, such measures were put in place so that you will go through the normal process of having a man's daughter's hand in married.

I really pity any Igbo girls who make themselves so cheap by allowing themselves to be impregnated by yoruba men without bride price.

Igbo girls are no cheap. If you intend getting cheap girls, go to ilorin or oshogbo or Abeokuta.

If he gets to the Supreme Court, there will be no Yoruba or Igbo tradition

THE JUDGE IS AN ILLITERATE.


U GIVE IGBO MAN DAUGHTER BELLE, THE IGBO MAN RAISE THE PIKIN AND U STILL EXPECT SAY NA YOU GET AM.


NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS FREE.


CERTAINLY NOT SOMEBODY ELSE RAISING YOUR CHILD.

Femmyfamous4u:


The constitution of the country supersedes every customs and traditions. It's not every time you okay victim.

I wonder ooo. In Yoruba land, our culture do not permit a child to sleep outside, that is, another man should not be the one responsible for such child, either the child from a duly wedded couple or mistress, so I wonder how people expect such conflict of culture to be resolved.
The constitution will always uphold what is seen to be the right decision by any sane human.

hammerFC:
THE JUDGE IS AN ILLITERATE.


U GIVE IGBO MAN DAUGHTER BELLE, THE IGBO MAN RAISE THE PIKIN AND U STILL EXPECT SAY NA YOU GET AM.


NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS FREE.


CERTAINLY NOT SOMEBODY ELSE RAISING YOUR CHILD.

Where did you read that someone else took care of the child?
You might have to go back to the background of the story the op is making reference to.
The woman left her cohabiting husband house with about 4children, got married to another man that works under the man as a pastor of a branch of the church, he changed the children names to the new husband's name, and she is putting up culture as a defence