WOMEN PROTEST SCARCITY OF HUSBAND IN ZAMFARA STATE.

Protesting women

Women in Zamfara State North Eastern Nigeria in their thousand matched to the Zamfara Hisbah Commission, seeking the state government’s assistance to enable them to get married.
The women 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.

The women complained about their inability to fend for themselves because there are no men to support them.

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 adding that the 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.

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