The complainant, who filed a case against her husband, told the court that she could no longer tolerate her husband and wished to divorce him through khul’i (Redemption).
“I can’t live with this man because I can’t tolerate him anymore, as such I want Khul’i, I will return the N20, 000 he paid as dowry,” Maryam tells the court.
Khul’i is a form of divorce permitted in Islam, where a woman initiates divorce by returning the dowry she received from her husband. She also urged the court to compel Yakubu to be a responsible father to their two-month-old baby while in her custody and allow her to pack her belongings from his house.
The defendant, who said he still loved his wife, stated that he paid N25,000.00 as dowry, not N20,000.00 as Maryam claimed. The judge, Malam Musa Sa’ad, had earlier requested the presence of the couple’s guardians who confirmed the dowry at N20,000.00
The judge confirmed that a woman has the right to demand khul’i as stipulated by the law and ruled that Maryam should refund N20,000.00 to Yakubu.
