Dauda has gone to the Sharia Court II, Magajin Gari, Kaduna, asking to be granted the child custody in line with the provisions of the law.
Her lawyer, Kabir Alhassan tells the court her client is seeking the custody of her “grandchild as stipulated in the Shari’a law and compel the father to take full responsibility of the child.” The complainant is also asking the court to order Abdullahi to pay N5,000 monthly as feeding allowance for the child.
However, Abdullahi informed the court that the case had been decided by another court that granted him custody of the child. He said that the Shari’a Court at Bashama in Tudun Wada area of Kaduna granted him the custody of his son after his ex-wife remarried.
Abdullahi presented documents from the earlier court that granted the order to back his assertion. Abdullahi explained that the child was under the care of his former wife after they divorced but was returned to him after she remarried.
“My mother-in-law dropped my son at my mother’s residence saying she could no longer take care of him as her husband doesn’t support her,” he tells the court.
Counsel to the complainant, however, denied Abdullahi’s claim describing it as mere “hearsay” as he was not around when the child was returned. He added that the grandmother returned the child due to illness, saying that she only sought medication for her grandchild.
