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Chukwuka Utazi, senator representing Enugu north, says in Africa, people do not marry for love, but to have children.

Utazi made the comment while contributing to a debate on a bill seeking to prevent, control and manage sickle cell anaemia in the country, on Tuesday.

The bill is being sponsored by Sam Egwu, senator representing Ebonyi north.

While making his point, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator said it is painful to realise that an individual cannot marry his or her choice because of blood group.

“This bill is taking me down the memory lane because I’m an AS carrier and when I was about getting married, several years ago, I moved into this orbit and I know what I went through because I was in love. I knew the trauma. After that incident, for five years I didn’t come out of it,” he said.

“So I am speaking from experience and I know how it pains that you have made a choice and you discover that the choice can’t work. Because in Africa, we marry for children, we don’t marry for love.”

At this point, Senate President Ahmad Lawan interrupted, saying: “Senator Chukwuka Utazi, I think you should be speaking for yourself.”

Continuing, Utazi said: “In the developed world, particulars of a child’s blood group is given at birth.

“A test is done to show the blood group, the genotype before leaving. In the birth certificate of the child, all those things are put in place.

“We should not be waiting for when people want to go and marry, that is when they will start checking their genotype and their blood group, it shouldn’t be.”

Also speaking on the subject, Biodun Olujimi, senator representing Ekiti south, asked Nigerians to look at ways of addressing health needs.

“The time has come for us to look inwards to solve some of these health needs and also support institutions that are doing so. Going forward we need to take serious blood testing for intending couples,” Olujimi said.

“We will not allow love take away the best part of our marriages.”

The bill passed second reading after it was put to a voice vote by Lawan.

Islie:
https://www.thecable.ng/extra-in-africa-we-marry-for-children-not-love-says-enugu-senator

SageMK:
Is he insinuating Africans are incapable of love?

EVILFOREST:
Correct
BABY MAKING CONTINENT with ASIA

Amotolongbo:
The senator is saying the truth though.

When a man or woman is reaching a certain age, people start asking and looking forward to the time he/she will come on to settle down with a partner, not because they want him/her to be taken care of by the partner, but because of the offspring coming out of the Union.
Family and friends start anticipating for the fruits of the womb and less concerned about how happy they are being together. And in Africa we care more and more influenced my what is happening in our environment, environments (family and friends) dictate to us on how to live our lives.

If majority of us in Africa do marry cause of love, we need not always getting worried about the delay in childbirth or sex of the children given birth to.

mmsen:
Which Asia?

Asians aren't having 5/6 children anymore. Only Africans are foolish enough to do such in the age of contraceptives.

Stupid people.