By our Correspondent
Governor of Borno State, Prof Babagana Zulum has lambasted men from the insecurity-ravaged northern Nigeria for taking undue advantage of the situation to marry more wives.
The governor said that he knew a man who came to the Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) Camp with one wife but now had four wives because he married three more, having more children in the camp.
Zulum, whose northeastern Borno State had until recently, been the epicenter of Boko Haram, stated this in a trending TikTok video.
IDP camps are temporary camps created for the victims affected by the various activities of Boko Haram terrorists, bandits and other groups operating in the northern part of Nigeria.
Gov Zulum who spoke in Hausa, while frowning at the development, reasoned that the men should be worried about how they could go home to rebuild their families rather than marrying more wives and bringing more children they could not feed.
“There is someone I know. He came to IDP camp with one wife, and now he has four wives. He added three from the IDP camp” Zulum said.