Source: Malawi24 
Renowned and experienced lawyer Ralph Kasambara who also served as the country's minister as well as attorney general in two different regimes has faulted the marriage bill being championed by a few activists as the law that the country needs on marriage and divorce.

In a statement the lawyer made via his social media accounts, the bill has got defects which will make it fail to serve the interests of Malawians.

According to the statement which Malawi24 has seen Kasambara has picked ten thorny elements of the bill and has ripped them asunder arguing that the bill does not cater for the needs of Malawians.

Some of the issues that the prominent lawyer has argued as tricky in the bill include the marriage age which he argues has been kept at 15 as the constitution still empowers parents to consent marriage at such an age, the issue of marital rape which the bill only addresses as that taking place after a judicial separation as well as divorce which he has argued has made divorce 'impossible' and expensive.

Kasambara's statement in which he had tagged one noisy campaigner for the bill Habiba Osman was however met by little contrary argument as Osman opted out of the debate arguing it was unfair that Kasambara had tagged few women in the post while a certain while one of Kasambara's followers Mzozodo Kafanikhale Mwale expressed that to him the issue of marital rape does not exist and therefore the bill was in a proper framing on the issue.

"My layman's understanding is that the day a woman says "Yes I do!" an open consent has been granted, which shall remain valid until she decides to divorce the hubby," posted Mwale.

The marriage bill has been a recent source of controversy as most people have felt that it has overlooked serious issues while promoting less important issues usually championed by radical feminism.

The bill has however been falsely touted by activists as having raised Malawi's marriage age from 16 to 18 and therefore it is a great thing. Contrary opinions have however expressed the loophole in that the bill subjects to the constitution which has the marriage age at 15 with parental consent.

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