Responding
to the nation-wide outrage expressed on the said passage of a Bill
legalising child marriage, the Senate said its decision last Wednesday was
“wildly misinterpreted, misreported and totally taken out of context”.
It denied
any wrongdoing.
The
chairman, of the Nigerian Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999
Constitution, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has insisted that the Senate will never
approve any legislation in support of early marriage. Ekweremadu
made the clarification on Tuesday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen on the
recent vote by the Senate on the recommendations of the Constitution Review
Committee.
We can
never support child marriage. Let Nigerians understand with us that these
issues have nothing to do with early marriage or Islam. It is purely about
renunciation of citizenship.
