Emir Sanusi Begs Nigerian Muslims To Peg Marriage Age
The Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II has reiterated his call for the pegging of marriage age. The Emir in a write up on his Instagram page title ‘Marriage of women below 18 years’ on Saturday enjoined the Nigerian Muslim community to call for pegging the pegging of marriage age.
He said the ‘’time had come when the Muslim community in Nigeria should live by the reality of economic recession and consequences of early marriage. ‘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 Ummah in Nigeria?”
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(Marriage of women below 18 years) – Women are suffering from reproductive health challenges were products of such marriages. Time had come when the Muslim community should live by the reality of economic recession and consequences of early marriage.
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 me, strategy no longer worked as it had led to cases of divorce and other ugly situations.
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.
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 20or 30 children and this must stop”. There was a need to peg the marriage age now because of the challenges early marriage was posing.
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