24/06/2024
"We Have Normalised Paying Millions In Bride Price For Something That One Man Ate For Free With Less Than ₦5000". Popular social critic, Reno Omokri writes to Nigerian men.
"If Southern Nigerian men travel widely, I don't know if they will still have an appetite for Nigerian women. Please fact-check me. In India, no matter how beautiful a woman is, you are not paying any bride price if you marry her. Rather, her family will give you a dowry for marrying their daughter. Again, I strongly encourage you to fact-check me. And mind you, Indians don't play with bridal vírginity. Sad to say, they can k!ll their own daughter if it turns out that after paying a dowry to a man to marry her, she is discovered not to be a virgin. Meanwhile, in Southern Nigeria, we have normalised paying millions in bride price for something that one man ate for free with less than ₦5000. Men and women were not created equally by God. You do not have to like it. I am not even sure I like it. You just have to accept the truth. It is an honourable thing for a woman to lose her Vírginity to her husband. Save it for the marital bed, not one bush close to your campus, or his car parties by the road!".