Zamfara Women Protest Over Husband Scarcity -

No fewer than 8,000 women on Thursday
matched to the Zamfara Hisbah
Commission, seeking the state
government’s assistance to enable them to
get married.
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.
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