Over 8000 Women Protest Husband Scarcity In Zamfara

Over 8,000 women on Thursday marched 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.