Business man drags in-law to court for barring wife from returning home

Business man drags in-law to court for barring wife from returning home

A business man, Isma’il Ibrahim, on Tuesday dragged one Zainab Muhammad, his mother in-law, to a Shari’a Court at Rigasa Kaduna, for allegedly stopping his wife from returning to her matrimonial home.

THECONSCIENCEng gathered that the complainant, who lives at Police Station road, Rigasa, told the court that the defendant had stopped his wife from returning home due to his financial situation.

“I love my wife and I want her home, I pray court to assist me get my wife back,’’ he said.

In her defence, the defendant told the court she stopped her daughter from going to her matrimonial home due to lack of care by the complainant.

She said her daughter had a caesarean section and lost her baby.

She added that the complainant failed to pay the hospital bill and abandoned the wife at her parent’s house for three months without care.

“He came after three months, requesting for his wife to return to him and I told him she has to stay with me for six months to enable her fully recover.

“My daughter fell sick after the operation and I was the one that paid for all her medication and feeding throughout the period,’’ she said.

She told the court that she was ready to hand over her daughter to the husband if he paid all she had spent on medication and feeding for nine months.

The judge, Malam Abubakar Salisu-Tureta, adjourned the case until Sept. 4, for the mother to collate and present the total sum of the money she spent on her daughter.