Strike’ll cost us marriage — Female students cry out

Some female students of the Anambra State University have said the continued closure of the university can deny them the opportunity to marry.

The students, who spoke to our correspondent in Awka, said age and time of graduation from the university were serious factors that determine marriage for women in Igboland.

They, therefore, urged the Anambra State Government and the striking workers of the university to urgently resolve their differences and call off the strike to save their future.

One of the female students, Uchenna, who is a social sciences student of the institution, said that these days men wait for girls to graduate from the university or any other higher institution before they approach them for marriage.

“Now if the university is closed down for too long, it may affect my age of graduation, which is another problem because men would not want to marry ladies who have gone past certain age,” she said.

The Secretary of the Students’ Union Government of the university, Mr. Callistus Ifeanyi, confirmed to our correspondent that the SUG leadership had come under pressure from female students, who wanted them to do something urgent to end the strike.

“It has been four months now and nothing is happening. Students are worried. Our ladies are not at peace with what is happening. Their time is counting. Somebody waiting for you to graduate before he will marry you will just move on to another person,” Ifeanyi said.

Our correspondent further gathered from respondents that these days, men do not want to train girls in school before marrying them or even after marrying them.

They want the girls’ parents to take full responsibility of training their daughters before they can approach them for marriage.

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