We Marry For Children, Not Love In Africa – Senator Utazi

Senator Chukwuka Utazi, representing Enugu north, declares that Africans only marry for children and not love.

He made the disclosure on Tuesday, while speaking on a bill seeking to prevent, control and manage sickle cell anaemia in Nigeria

Senator Utazi said:

“it is painful to realise that an individual cannot marry his or her choice because of blood group.”

he also said:

“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,”

“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.”