Authorities in Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam have
announced plans to publish all names of married men in the area in
a bid to protect single ladies.
Dar es Salaam regional commissioner Paul Makonda said his
administration will publish the identities of all married men to a
website operated by a State agency to protect unsuspecting single
women from being preyed by deceitful married men.
“I have received a lot of complaints from young women. Many
women from Dar es Salaam region have been deceived many times, and
they have had enough. Men have been promising to marry them, then
later, they ditch the ladies. This is something that is
humiliating,” Makonda said adding that the plan will save women
from “unnecessary heartbreaks”.
“These cunning men have left many women nursing heartbreaks and
emotional bruises. You’ll find a young man successfully wooing a
woman, making her leave every other thing that she does, hoping
that the man will marry her, not knowing that he is, indeed,
conning her.”
Makonda said the country’s laws allow authorities to protect
women who have been deceived by men with promises of marriage.
“If you look at the laws that we have in the country, there is a
clause that protects women, who were promised marriages, only to be
used and dumped. We want to use that clause to bring sanity in
relationships.”
“I cannot say I am a leader when the people I look after are
hurting. We want all married people to register their marital
statuses with the region’s database agency. This will help young
women promised marriages. It would be easy for them to access the
database and find out whether the men who have promised to marry
them are people’s husbands or not. In that database, all the
marriages, including Christian, customary, Muslim, those filed at
the registrar of marriages, will be registered.”
“We want to reduce the cases of men conning women in the name of
love and marriages. We are planning to meet the State agency in
charge of the citizens’ database. Once that meeting is done, you,
who lied to a woman that you will marry her, but ended up using and
dumping her, be prepared, we are coming for you.”