The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II has admonished all Muslims on what to do concerning child marriage and wife battery.
Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II on Tuesday made it clear that he is against any form of child marriage. He believes there should be a marriage age understandable for any girl to marry. According to him, marriage age should be pegged.
He made this view known during a conference of Northern Muslims Religious Leaders Forum on Primary Health care in Kano. The former Central Bank Governor explained that the reproductive health challenges associated with such practice is enough to discouraged the age long tradition.
Sanusi II said that Nigeria Muslims are ardent followers of Maliki school of thought like Morocco, Malaysia and Egypt, stressing that these brotherly countries had since pegged marriage age.
”I believe the time is ripe to take a stand on this age long practice of early marriage, and coincidentally we subscribed to Malikiyya school of thought like Morocco, Malaysia and Egypt who had since pegged marriage age to 17, 19 and 18 respectively,” he said.
Since the role of a woman as a housewife are numerous and highly demanding, he believes there is need to allow women to attain maturity status before marriage.
Sanusi II seriously frowned at polygamy as he noted that “most of those who engage in this practice do not have the necessary economic power to support himself”.
He condemned wife battery as he said Islam abhors assault on women. “I don’t expect my in-law to lay his hand on my daughter, but I have since urged her to retaliate any form of assault from her husband,” he said.