A Sharia Court sitting at Magajin Gari in Kaduna on Monday,
May 7, 2018, ordered that a man, Idris Sai’du, be given five strokes of the
cane for violation of the Islamic Law on divorce.
Dahiru Lawal, the judge, also ordered the man to pay N5,000
to Hauwa Abdullah, his wife for abandoning her and ”wasting her time for so
long”.
The judge, who was irked at the
respondent’s pronouncement of “I divorce my wife three times,” said it was not
in line with Islamic practice.
He, therefore, ordered the respondent to be given five
strokes of cane.
The complainant, Hauwa, had earlier told the court that her
husband chased her out of her matrimonial home since last year and had never
checked on her ever since.
“He asked me to leave his house since last year Ramadan, saying
I should pack all my belongings and leave. It is almost a year now and he never
checked on me,” the complainant said.
Hauwa, who stated that they were not blessed with a child,
added that she was in court to seek divorce as she could not be married to a
man that did not care for her.
“I want this honourable court to compel my husband to
divorce me as he is no longer interested in me,’’ she said.
In his response to the allegations, Mr. Sai’du said he
ordered Hauwa to return home because “she has been communicating with her
ex-husband which I am not comfortable with.
“I therefore divorced my wife three times.”
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