It’s a milestone achievement to have our windows and divorcees to be married, this reduces the increasing of love-children (illegitimate children) and begging within society.
Eng. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso was the first pioneer of this program, later followed by his successor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and now Abba K. Yusuf followed on the same page to the process.
The big and important question we need to ask ourselves is that, is the marriage last or, not, and why?
I witnessed a lot of such marriages unfortunately I can not mention even I single one that has lasted for five years, as a result of economic hardship among the couple. This can only be seen as an ad hoc ephemeral marriage.
For a man who can not marry is no longer fit to take over matrimonial burdens, marrying is not only about paying dowry, trousseau, furniture, etc., many invisible things go simultaneously with a marriage, and those are what make marriage lasting and happier.
Marrying is not about when you are getting old, it’s about reaching a level where one possesses a lot of love to share with his wife. The government should create centers that make our youths skilled and innovative rather than this so-called scheme of Auren Zawarawa.
In a nutshell, the answer to the above question is well known for all, marriage ends for a myriad of reasons which are commonly a lack of standard of living and misunderstanding between couples. Most of the widows and widowers hardly get a good understanding between them before the marriage and most of them are jobless and lazy.
The government should start thinking about how to empower the youths on how to be independent and self-reliant, marriage is about time and it is not necessarily for all to marry, but making youth self-reliant is necessary for creating peaceful and stable society.
By Yakubu Nasiru Khalid
