Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Emir of Kano on Tuesday, strongly condemned child marriage women battery. Speaking in a conference ...
Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Emir of Kano on Tuesday, strongly condemned child marriage women battery. Speaking in a conference of Northern Muslims Religious Leaders Forum on Primary Health care in Kano, the former Central Bank Governor explained that the reproductive health challenges associated with such practice was enough to discouraged the age long tradition.
The Emir said that Nigeria Muslims were ardent followers of Maliki school of thought like Morocco, Malaysia and Egypt, stressing that those brotherly countries had since pegged marriage age.
In his words “I believe the time is ripe to take a stand on this age long practice of early marriage, and coincidentally we subscribed to Malikiyya school of thought like Morocco, Malaysia and Egypt who had since pegged marriage age to 17, 19 and 18 respectively”.
He condemned most cultural practices that encouraged polygamy, adding that, “some of those who engage in this practice do not have enough economic power to support”.
He disclosed that “I don’t expect my in-law to lay his hand on my daughter, but I have since urged her to retaliate any form of assault from her husband .
