Hauwa Aliyu of Mariri Quarters, Kumbosto Local Government Area of Kano State has been arrested by the State Hisbah Board for allegedly marrying two husbands.
Hauwa who was first married to Muhammad Bello for 19 years and had six children, got married to Bala Abdussalam after her first husband travelled to Bauchi State for medical treatment.
According to Chronicle, Hauwa and her second husband, Bala had a baby boy.
Speaking to Chronicle, Hauwa claimed that she married her second husband after her marriage was ‘’dissolved.’’
‘’ I was divorced by my first husband, I remained in his house for my iddah (waiting period) according to Islamic injunction. While, I was in my ex-husband house, he fell ill, so, he travelled to his village in Bauchi state for traditional medication.
“So, when I completed my Idaah, I got married to my second husband with whom I was blessed with a baby boy. I married the second husband because as a woman, I cannot afford to carter for the needs of the six children I had with my first husband,” she said.
However, Muhammad claimed never to have divorced his wife. He said ‘’ I left my wife in Kano and travelled to Bauchi for medication only to come back and met her with another man inside my house, she claimed that is her husband.
Bala Abdussalam commented that he ‘’discovered that Hauwa was divorced by her first husband and that what makes me to seek for her hand in marriage and after we got married, we were blessed with a child.’’
The Director General of Kano State Hisbah Board, Dr Aliyu Musa Aliyu confirmed the case and said that the woman and her husbands were under the custody of Hisbah and would be transferred to court after investigation.
