Renowned music producer and showbiz mogul, Don Jazzy, has condemned the way some men treat their wife because of the bride price they paid to secure her hand in marriage.
The outspoken entertainer noted that , disrespecting one’s wife because of the bride price paid is a shallow mindset.
Don Jazzy however did not specify whether the disrespect from such men is as a result of the amount demanded from them before they got married to their wife.
The music producer tweeted, “So apparently some of the men that disrespect and treat their wives like sh*t do so becos they paid some useless bride price. Kai, how do we educate the multitude with this shallow mindset?”
A Twitter user, @iam_jaycheqs, whose profile says “women are not properties,” shared her opinion, saying “the bride price tradition needs to go.” According to her, “It holds no water in this modern time and age.”
She added, “What is the purpose? And why won’t a man feel like he owns a person after paying for her?”
She got a response from @oncle_thereal who said, “Like Don said, people need to be educated. Culture should not be lost or sacrificed on the altar of modernization. The culture of paying bride price in itself isn’t wrong or bad. It’s the individual mindset that makes things seem wrong. Hence, educating people better.”
@ItzMimiLSD added that the men Don Jazzy spoke of want their wife to reverence them because of the bride price they paid.
She said, “This set of men actually didn’t grow with love, they have some stupid ego in them, they feel the woman owes them the whole world just bcuz they paid some silly bride price. This is usually common among men who are still struggling to fit into the ‘middle family’.”
She added, “And then they spend lots of money during the marriage rites so they just keep reminding the woman of how much they paid as bride price and the huge amount of money they spent traditionally to the direct family of the bride. They feel the woman should worship them.”
