The danger of getting into early marriage (#195).
My name is Chernoh Jalloh, I am a Sierra Leonean, fullah is my tribe/language, I come from an extended family.
My father married five (5) women, having ten (10) sons and fifteen (15) daughters, a total of twenty-five (25) children.
Today I am going to share the story of my younger sister who got married at the age of (15), what happened at the end will shock you.
Isatu Jalloh, the name of my younger sister, she is my biological sister from the same mother, from our mother's side we are five in number.
I am the only son of my mother, the rest are my beautiful sisters and I am the first child of my parents, I am 45 years old.
I grew up with a lot of love as the first son, everyone loved me, but I was not educated because my dad was not educated too.
He did not believe in English learning, and because of that, I was not fortunate to go to school.
Before our parents did not believe in learning english, they had a lot of negative thinking about the white man's education.
Back to the sad story about my beloved kid sister, who I already told you guys got married at an early age.
I tried my best to stop the wedding, even tried to run away with her, but my dad said he was going to lay a cause on me if I tried anything funny.
Tradition is against a child's going against his father's wish, it is an abomination and by then I was just that boy waiting for daddy's support.
I was still at my dad's house, I couldn't afford to take care of her if we ran away from our dad, she finally got married to a 65-year-old man.
What a shame, that a man of the same age as my father, just because of tradition and money, she got married to a man she did not even know or love.
Such an act is heart-rending, the question was, how is she going to start in the first place at that age, she can't ever take care of herself well.
This 65-year-old man is married to fifteen (15) women and has fifty-five (55) children, our sister is his sixteen wife.
What an unfortunate situation for her, some of his grandchildren are even older than her, while some of them are age mates.
She did not know where or how to start taking off a home as little as she was by then, with no knowledge of how to be a wife or a mother.
Two years later, after giving birth to a bouncing baby boy, a month later, she passed away, food poisoning.
When we find out it was some of her mates who poised her out of jealousy, they confess that their husband pays more attention to her.
Our mother was not able to hold on to the pain, she passed away a few days after our sister's death.
Dad was not able to hold on to it too, he regretted and was ashamed of his decision, became frustrated, he passed away also.
Within one month we lost three important souls in our family, it was a very difficult time for the family.
This is for all parents, be a guide to your children, and don't force them into early marriage.
Is true marriage is a blessing from God but wait for the right time, don't go into marriage you will regret tomorrow.
Thank you for reading.
Happy Valentine's Day in advance
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