Court orders woman to pay N20,000 to ex-husband for divorce

A divorce-seeking housewife, Amina Abdulsalam has been ordered by a Gudu Grade I Area Court in Abuja to pay her estranged husband, Sani Abdulraman N20,000 as condition for divorce.

In her divorce suit, the petitioner, who filed a case against Abdulrahman, his husband of thirteen years, told the court that she could no longer tolerate him and wished to divorce him.

The petitioner told the court that her husband ran away with her children when she separated from him.

She also informed the court that the respondent restricted her from seeing them when he took them back to school.

Delivering his judgment, the Judge, Ado Muktar, said as stipulated by Islamic law, when the divorce is at the insistence of  one of the couples, which in this case, was instituted by the wife, the court had a duty to grant them what they asked for.

“I hereby pronounce the dissolution of the marriage between Sani and Amina as stipulated by Islamic law.

 “However, your husband cannot take you back until after a new marriage has taken place between you and someone else,” he held.

Meanwhile, Abdulrhman, the respondent who got married in 2016 with two children told the court that he would not contest Amina’s request for a divorce.

He added that he was not interested in the money but requested that the court should order her to return the household items she took from his home when she left.

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