Not all are for gratitude; some tears are for memories of ordeal – Churches told
The plight of widows in Africa and Ghana particularly is an eyesore considering the agony many women who lose their husbands are subjected to.
Based on the sinisterly encounter many widows suffer from their late husbands relatives, Blessed Godsbrain Smart has charged the church to pay much attention to the welfare of widows who have been subjugated to emotional torture due to the callousness of such people.
Speaking on the Wednesday, June 23, 2021 edition of the Smart Show on Smart TV, Captain Smart averred the tears some widows share during church services are recollections of the agony they’ve been subjected to, which are triggered by some of the songs sung during church services.
He was speaking on International Widows Day which was observed globally on the day.
“Not all the tears in church are for gratitude. Some remind widows of the ordeal they go through and for that reason, they shed tears. The songs remind them of certain things they’re going through at home”
“A man [widower] can get another woman at the wife’s funeral but it is a taboo for the woman to even take a man after 6 months. I know I won’t die now but if I die tomorrow, my wife would observe widowhood for two weeks and not one year,” he explained.
He added that, “In some jurisdictions, the woman need to sleep in a room with a man [dead husband] for one night before the body is taken to the morgue.”
Captain Smart stated many children end up becoming misfit in society due to the fact that their mothers were sacked from the house when their fathers died.
“…That child on the streets could have become a nurse but because the father died and the mother was ejected from the house, her life never became the same”
Questioning the policy of the Gender and Social Protection Ministry for widows in the country, Mr. Smart commended Akumaa Mama Zimbi’s Zimbid Foundation, and a former Deputy Gender Minister at erstwhile Prof. Mill’s administration, Rachael Adwoa Appoh, for taking upon themselves to help widows in the country.
“What better policies do we have for widows in this country? It’s Mama Zimbi and Rachael Appoh who have been helping these women but getting support even becomes a problem.
He advised whoever is maltreating widows in the country to stop or else, face the wrath of God.
“There is widows fund in some jurisdictions but not in Ghana here. Here, the family would wait fir your husband to die and present documents that the house you built with your late husband is situated on a family land and take over the property. Stop maltreating widows so that God’s wrath will not come upon you,” he advised.
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