NEWS
Outrage as northern "Ph.D
holder" says "it will be absurd to say that a girl of
16 is a child bride"
A man
claiming to be a Ph.D holder has caused outrage after he defended child
marriage by saying 16-year-old girls cannot be considered child brides because
of "modernization", "lifestyle" and "the type of food
we eat."
Mustapha Mohammad
tweeted: "With the advent of modernization and the lifestyle we live, not
forgetting to mention the type of food we eat these days. It will be absurd to
say that a girl of 16 is a child bride. The most important thing is for the
groom to have what takes mentality and economically."
His tweet was in
reaction to another by a man from northern Nigeria who called on northern
leaders to begin speaking against child marriages.
Web users have
called Mustapha out for his statement and accused him of not being deserving of
his Ph.D.
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