by Anike Jacobs
Ex-military governor of old Anambra State, Col. Robert Akonobi (rtd), has pleaded with Igbo parents to reduce the bride price of their daughters so that ‘’our young boys can marry them.”
Speaking recently at the industrial city of Nnewi, Anambra State during the traditional wedding ceremony of the daughter of a business mogul, Chief Louis Onwugbenu, Onyinye and her husband, Bosah Chukwuogo, Col. Akonobi said:
“To me, this topic (bride price) has been dealt with in the past by Ndigbo… (they should come out with a reduced bride price) to enable our young boys marry our young girls.”
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