Senator Saidu Dansadau on Monday asked delegates attending the national conference to enact laws that would curb what he described as “excessive divorce” by northerners.
Dansadau, a delegate from Zamafara State, described the rate at which northerners divorced their wives as “irresponsible.”
He told delegates that he had a friend who he said had divorced about 74 times, adding that the practice among northerners, whereby some men would marry a young lady at 17 and divorce her after having eight children, should be condemned.
He said, “Hausa men divorce with impunity; it is not a lie. I have a cousin who has married 74 times. It is only in Hausaland that you have a man marrying a girl at 17 or 18 and after eight children, you divorce her.
“State Houses of Assembly should have commission to protect the rights of women and children. Women should take their cases to this commission for a redress.
“Those divorced wrongly should also take their matters there because the Islamic injunctions on divorce are not been followed by Muslim men.”
Source: THE PUNCH