He thus talked about the need to engage the National Assembly through the Ministry of Gender for a possible law to protect married women.
“Our women cannot be used as tools anymore. People abandoning their wives must pay a price for it. It is too cheap to dump and abandon your wife without paying attention to education and feeding of the wife you dumped unjustly,” he said.
“I want to urge the National Assembly Members (NAMs) to engage the majority and minority leaders to engage government and the Ministry of Gender for us to amend our laws that would protect our women.”
He revealed that the number of broken marriages in The Gambia is alarming and the way the women are being dehumanised, maltreated and abandoned by the men who do not care about after divorcing their wives is uncalled for. “How can their children and wives survive and who pays the school fees of their children?”
“It is high time that the country come up with a law that will protect women and to make sure that men who are taking these decisions understand that they are going to pay a price for it.”
“Too often our women are struggling to pay the school fees of their children and the single parents are struggling to pay for their rents and struggling to feed their children when the men who abandoned them are into other activities as if they have no responsibility to the children they brought to this earth.”
He emphasised that it is high time that the National Assembly takes up the responsibility with the government to ensure that laws are amended to protect the women.
“How can a woman spend all her life building a property together with you (the husband) only to wake-up and send her out of that place? We have to make an end to that,” he warned.
