Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II goes against child marriage in the Muslim community and asked the relevant authorities to enact a law that would convict anybody that gave birth to children and allowed them to suffer.
Women are suffering from reproductive health challenges are mostly products of such early marriage. It's time when the Muslim community should live by the reality of economic recession and calamities of early marriage.
Time has gone when people gave out their daughters in marriage at tender age and asked the husbands to wait till they were old enough 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 stable but also because people were not relying on government for sustenance.
Bad economic realities now make it impossible for people to feed twice a day these days, Unfortunately our people do not change and somebody with low income still give birth to 20 or 30 children and this must stop.
There was a need to stipulate the marriage age now because of the challenges early marriage was posing. 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?”
Nigerian Muslims also practice the Malikiyas School of thought as these countries, We should follow suit and stipulate our own marriage ages for our own good”. I plead with the relevant authorities to enact a law that would punish anybody that gave birth to children and allowed them to suffer.
Most of those neglected children not only turned victims of social vices but also engage in terrorism. – Mohammadu Sanusi II
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