- Safiu Kehinde
A hearing-impaired woman, Hauwa’u Bello has on Wednesday dragged her husband, Usman Shuaibu before a Shari’a court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna state, on grounds that he gives her only N50 for food.
Bello who communicated through sign language, which was interpreted by one Aisha Sulaiman, said her husband was starving her.
Narrating her ordeal, she recounted how her mother had been largely responsible for her welfare since she married Shuaibu in 2016.
Bello accused her husband, who is a tailor, for failing in his responsibilities.
“We got married in 2016 and my parent provided food for us. The problem started when the food finished.
“He has failed in his responsibilities to provide for the house. He is a tailor.
“When I delivered my baby, he couldn’t pay the hospital bill, it was his mother who provided the money,” she said.
Bello said that their parents had intervened and advised her husband to provide his family’s needs, but he didn’t change.
She prayed court to dissolve the marriage.
In response, Shuaibu denied Bello’s claims as the Judge, Malam Kabir Muhammad, ordered the couple to present their parents or guardians on the 25th of August.