A housewife in Alkammawa, Sokoto North Local Government Area, Rukayya Hamza, has dragged her husband, Ghazali Garba, before the City Lower Sharia Court over his inability slaughter rams during their children’s naming ceremonies.
Rukayya, who is seeking divorce, while testifying before the court President, Faruk Ibrahim, said that her husband only gave names to the children, Idris and Khadija, three years and five months respectively, without slaughtering rams.
The woman also told the court that Ghazali Garba was not feeding her, and most times, beat her.
She prayed the court to dissolve their marriage.
However, the husband admitted not slaughtering rams during the naming, but denied other allegations his wife levelled against him.
He told the court that he neither starved her wife of food nor maltreated her.
Garba said, “I did not slaughter rams on the children’s naming because I was insolvent whenever she was delivered of the children. So, I gave names to the children like that.”
The President of the court, while adjourning the case till May 23, 2017, urged the wife to present witnesses to testify against the husband as she claimed.
