Over 8,000 women on Thursday marched to the Zamfara Hisbah Commission searching the state government’s aid to enable them get wed.
directed 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 usual life and needed husbands to become entire.
“Many of us cannot pay for 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 other ones, whom he said, were looking for men to marry.
He said the women furthermore required aid to buy house items such as beds, mattresses and other basic necessities needed to move to their married man dwellings.
Goshe asked to the charge to assist the association in screening suitors for the women.
He said the screening would work out the suitors wellbeing status, source of livelihood and proficiency to sustain a family.
answering, the head person of the charge, Dr Atiku Zawuyya, commended the association for the start, saying it would aid in ridding the humanity of women of very simple virtues.
Zawuyya promised to present the issue to the state government for essential action, but urged the patron to furthermore set up a alike body for men to make the pairing workout easier.
Nigerian Eye
