"We Need Men In Our Lives" - 8000 Women Protest Over Scarcity Of Husband

No fewer than 8,000 women on
Thursday stormed the Zamfara Hisbah
Commission to protest the scarcity of
men in Zamfara.
Apparently the women are seeking the
state government's assistance to
enable them to get married.
Led by the Chairperson of the Zamfara
Widows Association, Hajiya Suwaiba
Isa, and the 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 had
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 husbands' houses.
Goshe appealed to the commission to
assist the association in screening
suitors for the women and said the
screening would determine the suitors'
health status, source of livelihood and
ability to maintain a family.