Count me out of child marriage- Makarfi

Former Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has said that the issue of child marriage would not even cross his mind, not to talk of contemplating  going  into it as a suitor to an underage girl.

Senator Makarfi, who is representing Kaduna North senatorial zone of the state, told some Journalists in an interview in his Kaduna residence at the weekend that a girl who married at 13 would not be able to give birth, pointing out that what the Senate wanted to do was to ensure parity and equality for boys and girls relating to the age of marriage.

He, however, noted that child marriage issue was messed up by different proponents  of the matter, stressing that if a girl is married at 13 and she could renounce her citizenship, a boy cannot until he reaches 18, an indication that there is no parity and equality between a girl and a boy.

“I am not for underage marriage, I will never support it, I will never engage in it, I will never encourage it.

Well, as we say in football palace "Dem don dey go, one by one, dem don dey go."