{"id":8390,"date":"2013-08-15T10:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T10:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/ogun-women-protest-early-marriage-bill\/"},"modified":"2013-08-15T10:40:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T10:40:19","slug":"ogun-women-protest-early-marriage-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/ogun-women-protest-early-marriage-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogun women protest early marriage bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds of women yesterday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, staged a peaceful rally to protest the National Assembly\u2019s resolution to pass into law, the bill supporting early child marriage.<\/p>\n

The protesters, which included market men and women, religious groups and civil society groups, organised themselves under the aegis of the Concerned Women Forum, CWF.<\/p>\n

They stormed the state Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, at Iwe Irohin House in Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta to register their displeasure over the matter.<\/p>\n

The women, who were led by the Iyalode of Egbaland, Mrs. Alaba Lawson, carried placards bearing different inscriptions such as: \u201cGive us education, not marriage,\u201d \u201cChild marriage is barbaric, no to it,\u201d \u201cWoe to husbands of underage, they are evils,\u201d \u201cOgun children reject child marriage,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

The aggrieved women bemoaned the attitude of the lawmakers, who they said ought to be good examples for Nigerian children.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs that the next thing we need in this country? What are they looking for? What are they portraying to the other nations of the world?\u201d the protesters asked.<\/p>\n

Speaking with journalists during the rally, Lawson explained that child marriage would deprive girls the right to get adequate education, adding that the act had destroyed the lives of young girls in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n

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