by umar akilu majeri,in gusau
No fewer than 8,000 women today, took to the streets in Zamfara state,
protesting over lack of enough men to marry them. They pleaded with
the state’s Shari’a Board, known as Hisbah Commission to assist them
to get men to marry them.
The protesters were led by the Chairperson of the Zamfara Widows
Association, Hajiya Suwaiba Isa, and the patron, Alhaji Sa’idu Goshe.
The women said they were not living a normal life and needed husbands
to become whole.
“Many of us cannot afford two meals in a day because there are no men
to support us,” they said.
The patron said the association had over 8,000 women, comprising 5,380
divorcees, 2,200 widows, 1,200 orphans and 80 others, whom he said,
were looking for men to marry.
He said the women also needed assistance to purchase household items
such as beds, mattresses and other basic necessities needed to move to
their husbands’ houses.
Goshe appealed to the commission to assist the association in
screening suitors for the women.
He said the screening would determine the suitors’ health status,
source of livelihood and ability to maintain a family
