OVER 8000 WOMEN IN ZAMFARA SEEK ASSISTANCE TO GET MARRIED.

over 8,000 women on Thursday
matched 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. (NAN)