Shocking: Underage marriages flourish in Adamawa IDP camps
Amidst ravaging hunger and crippling poor healthcare facilities, underage marriages, otherwise known as child marriage, still boom at the Internally Displaced Persons camps in Adamawa State.
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Amidst ravaging hunger and crippling poor healthcare facilities, underage marriages, otherwise known as child marriage, still boom at the Internally Displaced Persons camps in Adamawa State.
Among the constraints faced by the vulnerable citizens of Adamawa State, including the Internally Displaced Persons, are ill-equipped Primary Healthcare Centres.
“I will meet with the Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency alongside the development partners to brainstorm on the matter. We will meet with the leaders of the camps to sensitise them on the need to stop such from happening. It is not just about the love they claim to have. They should wait until they are of marriageable age to do so. That way, the husbands would have something tangible to do as well to support their families and not just rely on the help they get from time to time.