A forty- year-old house wife,
Larai Adamu has urged a Sharia Court in
Magajin Gari, Kaduna, Kaduna State, to dissolve her eight months old marriage
to her 70-year-old husband,
Muhammed Jibril, over alleged lack of care.
According to the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the complainant, told the court that she was no longer
interested in their marriage and would want to redeem herself.
“I am ready to pay him back
the N10, 000 dowry he paid on me, so as to redeem myself from the marriage,”
she said.
The defendant however, told
the court that he still loved his wife and prayed the court to give him time to
settle the matter out of court.
He explained that he
married the complainant in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State and
brought her to Kaduna.
The judge, Musa Sa’ad after
listening to both parties, asked the complainant if she had any relative in
Kaduna and she answered in affirmative.
“The court is not saying no
to the complainant’s prayers as it is in accordance with the Islamic law for a
woman to seek divorce through redemption,” he stated.
The judge ordered the
complainant to present one of her relatives in court and adjourned the case
till November 12.
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