We marry for children, not love in Africa – Senator Utazi

We marry for children, not love in Africa – Senator Utazi
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Senator Chukwuka Utazi, representing Enugu north, has said Africans only marry for children and not for love.
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He made the disclosure on Tuesday, while speaking on a bill seeking to prevent, control and manage sickle cell anaemia in Nigeria
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According to him: “it is painful to realise that an individual cannot marry his or her choice because of blood group.
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This bill is taking me down the memory lane because I’m an AS carrier and when I was about getting married I moved into this orbit and I know what I went through because I was in love.
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I knew the trauma. After that incident, for five years I didn’t come out of it. So I am speaking from experience and I know how it pains that you have made a choice and you discover that the choice can’t work. Because in Africa, we marry for children, we don’t marry for love.”