AISHA ABUBAKAR
Relief may have come the way of a housewife, Rahinat Ahmed, following the dissolution of her 14-year old marriage to her husband, Abdulhakim Aliyu, after she told the Court that she was tired of the marriage because she does not love her husband.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, FCT, presided by the Judge, Malam Ibrahim Rufai, consequently dissolved the marriage according to the Islamic Law, following Ahmed’s prayer for divorce on grounds of lack of love.
The judge, Rufai stated that under Islamic laws it was permitted for a wife to seek divorce by way of “khuli” and when it happens and the husband accepts, it amounts to a single divorce.
Khuli is a procedure through which woman can divorce herself from her husband in Islam by returning the dowry and everything she received from him during their living together.
The judge further stated that the respondent had earlier refused to collect anything from the petitioner but accepted to divorce her.
”It is clear that the respondent has accepted the divorce. I hereby confirm the divorce and the marriage dissolved, ” the Judge stated.
Rufai ordered Ahmed to observe “Iddah”, which is a waiting period to be observed for three months before contracting another marriage.
Earlier, the petitioner had told the Court that she got married to the respondent under the Islamic Law in May, 2009 and was blessed with eight children.
Ahmed said she was tired of the marriage and all efforts made to make it work proved abortive.
She however, applied for a divorce on 17th March, 2023, based on khuli and on grounds of lack of love and offered the respondent N5 ,000 to be divorced under Khuli but the respondent refused to accept the money.
The respondent, who consented to the divorce, said that he does not want anything from the petitioner hence the marriage was consequently dissolved accordingly.