- Agency Report
A housewife, Mrs Bilkisu Ismail, on Monday, dragged her husband, Abubakar Salisu, before a Shari’a Court at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, over alleged failure to provide her shelter.
Ismail, who told the court that she had been living in her parent’s house for five years, prayed the court to ask her husband the condition of their marriage.
“Even though, he provides food and takes care of my health when I’m sick, I need to be in my husband’s house.
“Therefore, he should provide the house by the end of this month or divorce me,” she said.
Responding to the allegation brought against him, Salisu told the court that he still loves his wife and doesn’t want the dissolution of the marriage.
The respondent, however, denied that Ismail had spent five years in her father’s house.
According to him, the petitioner had only spent three years at her parents’ residence, not five.
Salisu stated that he had bought a house in Rigasa, but she refused to move in, claiming not to like the area
He said that the property was subsequently sold and another one bought at Hayin Danmani.
The husband prayed the court to give him three months grace to finish renovating the house.
The Judge, Malam Kabir Muhammad, after listening to both parties, said that what the husband did was wrong according to Islamic law.
“For you to leave a woman for three months at her parents’ house is a grave offence against her not to talk of three years; this is unacceptable in Islam,”he said.
The judge inquired from the petitioner if the three months requested by her husband was acceptable to her.
Ismail told the court that she was willing to wait, but if at the end of the period her husband failed to move her into his own house, she would seek divorce.
The Judge adjourned the matter to November 10 for the defendant to report the completion of the house. NAN