Nigerian singer, Olawale Ibrahim Ashimi popularly known as Brymo has opposed the tradition of paying bride price.
Gatekeepers News reports that Brymo on Friday, took to his official Instagram account story to express his view on practice of paying bride price.
The singer stated that paying bride price symbolizes transfer of ownership over women rather than honouring their self-dependence.
He said, “I saw in a movie scene the other day where a man told a female love interest that ‘a woman that can be bought is not worth having’… and it all made sense to me without a doubt left in my mind, and that the practice of paying bride-price depicts the transfer of ownership of the bride.”
“And I may participate nought of that, and especially because the other who was paid for may ever still choose to be as they want to afterwards… and posing ownership problems for the procurer…and a man expresses full ownership on things he pays for…yet a woman ain’t a thing to own or one to dictate for.”
Brymo further addressed the issue of abortion, calling for its legalization on all safe levels.
The singer said that legalizing abortion would ensure individuals are held accountable for children they bring into the world.
He said, “Let abortions on all safe levels be legal, and so that folks may be enforced to stay and raise the kids they bring forth by law… there is too much of letting adults walk away from commitments they pretended to be partaking of a while before.”
