Previously, they were considered stranger than fiction stories from the developed world, but now, they are turning to a common feature in Nigeria, even conservative enclaves of the North.
Now, Malama Khadija of Rano Local Government Area of Kano State has abandoned her marriage and married her daughter’s boyfriend.
After her daughter Aisha refused to marry the man, her mother would not let him go and pursued with single-minded devotion, dumping her husband for the man who once wanted to be her son-in-law..
Malama Khadija’s relatives however told a local radio station in Kano that the Rano Local Government Area Hisbah Commandant was behind marrying off their daughter without their consent and that they do not know where she was.
But then, Khadija who spoke to the same radio station announced that she was living happily with her new husband and that her marriage was not forbidden in Islam.
Khadija said that when she found out that Aisha did not want to marry her former boyfriend, she felt they should not lose him.
She proceeded ti contact his new husband’s family for the right thing to be done. She added that she was as beautiful as her daughter.
“I didn’t do it with ignorance. I contacted clerics and they said it is not prohibited in Islam. When I contacted my new husband, he agreed, but my parents and relatives refused to do the marriage rites. That was why I decided to go to Hisbah and we are happily married now.”
Khadija’s uncle, Abdullahi Musa Rano, said they refused to allow her to marry the man because she deliberately dissolved her first marriage in order to marry her daughter’s suitor who was not qualified to be her husband.
“She mounted pressure on her husband to divorce her, just to marry the man. We can’t do this shameful thing in our family which was why we refused to join them in marriage. We are not happy with what Hisbah did and we want them to bring out our daughter. We want the General Commandant and the State Government to look into the matter.”
They contacted the Hisbah Commandant in Rano, Ustaz Nura Rano, who said only the State Command of the Board had the right to speak on the issue.
On their part, the state’s Hisbah Commander General, Sheikh Harun Ibn-Sina, said an investigation into the matter was still ongoing.
