SERIKALI YA ERITREA IMETOA AMRI KILA MWANAUME LAZIMA AOE MKE WA PILI

Huko nchini Eritrea, serikali imetoa tangazo kuwa, LAZIMA KILA MWANAUME, AOE MKE WA PILI. Hali hii imejitokeza baada ya kuwa na upungufu wa wanaume, kulikosababishwa na wengi kufia vitani wakati wa vita kati ya nchi hiyo na Ethiopia!



Serikali imetoa tangazo kwa Lugha ya Kiarabu, na kwa mujibu wa Tangazo hilo mwanaume atakayepuuzia agizo hilo, "atahukumiwa kwenda jela, pamoja na kazi ngumu".

Na mwanamke atakaye fanya juhudi zozote kumzuia mwanaume wake asioe bibi wa pili, adhabu yake ni "kifungo cha maisha gerezani", ili akose mume kabisa, ajue uchungu wa mwanamke mwenzie kuishi bila mwanaume.

Habari hii imekuwa , habari njema nchini Kenya, baada ya Wakenya kuanza kuomba Visa za kuingia nchini Eritrea na kuanza taratibu za kubadili urai, ili waweze kuoa wake wawili, baada ya kule Rombo watu kuanza kuchangamkia wake zao vilivyo, fursa zimehamia Eritrea.

Je, hapa Tanzania kuna haja, ya serikali pia kutangaza au kutoa agizo kama hilo..? Uhaba wa wanaume upo, japo chanzo kikuu hapa kwetu ni upungufu wa nguvu za kiume, pamoja na uoga wa maisha plus majukumu.

Kenyans have received the news of mandatory polygamy by men in Eritrea with a mix of bewilderment and excitement.

Activists have posted a memo allegedly by the Government of Eritrea asking men to marry at least two wives due to acute shortage of men occasioned by casualties during the civil war with Ethiopia.

In the statement written in Arabic assures of government support to the polygamous marriages.

The activists translate it thus, “Based on the law of God in polygamy, and given the circumstances in which the country is experiencing in terms of men shortage, the Eritrean department of Religious Affairs has decided on the following .”

First that every man shall marry at least two women and the man who refuses to do so shall be subjected to life imprisonment with hard labour.

“The woman who tries to prevent her husband from marrying another wife shall be punished to life imprisonment,” alleges the activists in their translation.

The Standard could not immediately authenticate the document nor the translation and it was not clear why the statement was not in the other two national languages, Tigrinya and Tigre.

The May 1998 to June 2000 Eritrean-Ethiopian war saw 150,000 soldiers killed from either sides but having a bigger impact on male population in the tiny Eritrea nation who were then just 4million people in total.

via Standard Kenya