The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, says he is on the verge of proposing a law which will restrict poor men in the emirate from marrying many wives.
Sanusi said this in Abuja on Sunday at the 50th anniversary of the death of Ambasador Isa Wali, a former Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana who died on active duty on February 19, 1967.
The monarch said he had been able to establish a connection between polygamy, poverty and terrorism.
Sanusi said he would ensure that the law would be passed by the Kano State Government as a way of immortalising the late Wali who was one of the first northern elements to advocate gender equality.
He said, “Those of us in the North have all seen the economic consequences of men who are not capable of maintaining one wife, marrying four. They end up producing 20 children, not educating them, leaving them on the streets, and they end up as thugs and terrorists.
“It is perhaps a tribute to Mallam Isa that today, as I speak, in the palace in Kano a sub-committee of scholars, which I set up and has been working for about a year, is finalising the final sections of a family law we intend to introduce in Kano which will address some of the issues that Mallam Isa was concerned about.
“The law will address what Islam says on marriage, it will outlaw forced marriages, it will make domestic violence illegal, it will put in conditions that you need to fulfil before you can marry a second wife, it will spell out the responsibilities of a father beyond producing a child.
“It is a big law which covers a whole range of issues from consent to marriage, to maintenance to divorce, to maintenance of children and inheritance. It will be the first time in northern Nigeria that a Muslim law on personal status will be codified.”
Sanusi, who said there was nothing wrong with polygamy if it was practised properly, maintained that women must be given the opportunity to thrive.
I think that's a very good idea to cut down hunger, poverty and crime in our society
ReplyDeletesimply superb sire..this will go a long way in curbing all the execesses this poor men go beyond marrying one wife of which they cant take care of and causing many problems in the society as stated.kudos to him for this wonderful initiative
ReplyDeleteMr Olu mark my word they will fight him silly
ReplyDeleteForget sorry our Emir is what you yourself know it can't work unless northerner are not practices Islam again
ReplyDeleteOlu, are you there?
ReplyDeleteThat will be fine
Yes o. Very good idea.
ReplyDeletewell said
ReplyDeleteBetter
ReplyDeleteBetter do so o!
ReplyDeleteMarrying and giving birth is not the problem, but raising the children....
Well raised child is a benefit to the society....
Good sugestion. that is if the Islamic elite agree to this new law.
ReplyDeleteYou are right sir they due misinterpret a lot of islamic teachings about marriage and childbirth
ReplyDeletegood one my radical imam/emir...it's high time we legislate a law dt will stop ds rubbish in d islamic world...especially in the northern naija.
ReplyDeleteThat's good step in a right direction
ReplyDeleteI think that will be good
ReplyDeleteEmir is a crimcrumcramcrum baboon, so it's only the rich that will be entitled to good things and enjoyment, while the poor should go and crash?, that law of wickedness will not hold. Emir is meant to advice and encourage not to restrict and ban on such an issue. A poor man can be rich while a rich man can be poor.
ReplyDeleteI Agee with you
ReplyDeleteIt's a good one especially for the sake of the welfare of the children they intend to have.
ReplyDeleteAnitin dt suits dem..
ReplyDeleteVery good idea, but some people will kick against it
ReplyDeletethe educated will understand but the problem is the illitrate will they understand?
ReplyDeleteVery good
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