- Beat Your Wives, Lose Your Titles – Emir Sanusi to Traditional Leaders
- Urges Traditional leaders to uphold and protect the rights of women
- Sanusi emphasized that violence, under any pretext, is incompatible
Muhammadu Sanusi II, the 16th Emir of Kano, has strongly condemned violence against women, stressing that Islam opposes any form of abuse toward women.
Eko Hot Blog reports that he made this statement on Monday at his palace in Kano while speaking to a delegation from the Development Research and Project Center (dRPC) and the Center for Islamic Civilisation and Interfaith Dialogue (CICID) at Bayero University.
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The group visited as part of a Ford Foundation-supported initiative aimed at encouraging Muslim religious leaders to actively oppose violence against women in northern Nigeria.
Emir Sanusi also urged all traditional leaders within his jurisdiction to uphold and protect the rights of women.
“I never believe in beating women, and those who do, are not beating their wives with the intention of reforming them,” Sanusi said.
“What we see today is even serious beating and injuring of women in name of reforming them.”
He firmly stated that any titleholder found committing such acts would have their traditional title revoked.
Emir Sanusi’s comments contribute to the growing efforts by religious and community leaders to challenge harmful practices often misrepresented as discipline or moral correction.
The Emir emphasized that violence, under any pretext, is incompatible with the principles of Islam.
