AISHA ABUBAKAR
A housewife, Zainab Yunusa, has fled from her matrimonial home and returned to her parents just one year after her marriage over her inability to cope with unusual high sex demands from her husband, Alhaji Ali Garba.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that apart from running away, she equally filed a suit before the Sharia Court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, asking the Court to dissolve her marriage to Alhaji Garba over the matter.
The embattled Zainab told the Court that her husband, Garba, was too much for her to handle because he demands sex even while she is menstruating including during the Ramadan fast.
Mrs. Zainab informed the Court that they lived together only for a year as a couple and when the sex demands became unbearable, she moved back to her parents house in order to have peace.
The plaintiff, Zainab, further explained that during their stay together, Garba usually come home back in the afternoon when she was on her menstrual cycle to demand sex, which she said was against the Islamic doctrine.
“During Ramadan fast, he usually comes back home in the afternoon and demands for sex, and whenever I refuse, he gets angry and always gets offended.”
“And when I ask him for food, he usually replies me that I should go and meet my boyfriend to feed me. He never trusted me to the extent that he never allowed anybody including my male or female relatives to visit me,” she told the Court.
The embittered woman told the Court that she ran away from her matrimonial home, as she could not satisfy her husband’s appetite for sex and prayed the Court to dissolve the marriage as she was not ready to succumb to her husband’s unusual sex demands in disobedience to the Islamic doctrine.
The husband, Garba, however, denied the claims, saying that Zainab had filed many allegations against him in different courts through his counsel, Mr. M.A Sambo, stating that his wife’s mother went to his house in his absence, packed and sold his properties, before leaving with her daughter.
He said that the mother had promised to return all that they took from his house during a settlement meeting and listed items removed to include a set of chairs worth N100,000, television set, two refrigerators, N35,000 worth of plates and other kitchen utensils, 20 yards of leather carpet and mattress worth N15,000.
Garba told the Court to consider his request for the return of his properties as a precondition for his acceptance of the divorce request, otherwise Zainab should return to his home and continue with the marriage.
The Judge, Murtala Nasir, after listening to both parties, ordered the plaintiff, Zainab, to come to the Court with her mother on the next hearing date and adjourned the matter to 27th September, 2022, for continuation of hearing.