AISHA ABUBAKAR
An embattled man, Yahaya Saleh, has refused to collect the bride price he had paid earlier for his wife, Rabi, following the dissolution of their 6-year old marriage as ordered by the Court in FCT, Abuja.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the Grade 1 Area Court in Lugbe, Abuja dissolved the marriage between Saleh and his wife, Rabi, and ordered the wife to return the bride price.
However, Saleh who lives in Jedo Estate, Lugbe, Abuja, told the Court that he would not collect back the bride price because he had children with his estranged wife. He stated that he will not do so because the marriage was consummated under the Islamic Law and was blessed with two children, the first being four years old and the second one, two years old.
The marriage was eventually dissolved accordingly and while delivering the judgment, the Presiding Judge, Saleh Ramat, stated that the marriage was dissolved on the grounds of Saleh’s lack of care for Rabi, adding that the marriage had broken down irretrievably.
Mrs. Rabbi had in her petition, filed before the Court, alleged that her husband had not been taking care of her and their two children throughout their 6-year old marriage.
“My husband does not care about our health. Whenever the children or me are sick, he doesn’t show care.
I have been the one feeding the family, caring for their health and all other needs.”
“I want the Court to dissolve the marriage. I have no love for my husband again,” she had told the Court.