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?”
Below is the full text (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.
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 peg our own marriage ages for our own good”.
I urge the relevant
authorities to create 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. – Muhammadu Sanusi
II
Sanusi II to
Nigeria Muslim Ummah: Why don’t we call for pegging of marriage ages?
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