Over 8,000 women on Thursday matched to the Zamfara Hisbah Commission
seeking the state government's assistance to enable them get married.
Led
by the Chairperson of the Zamfara Widows Association, Hajiya Suwaiba
Isa and their 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 has
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
husband 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.
Responding, the
Chairman of the commission, Dr Atiku Zawuyya, commended the association
for the initiative, saying it would assist in ridding the society of
women of easy virtues. Zawuyya promised to present the matter to the
state government for necessary action, but urged the patron to also set
up a similar body for men to make the pairing exercise easier. http://www.nigerianeye.com/2013/09/8-000-women-seek-husbands-in-zamfara.html
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