- Family accuses Hisbah Commander of complicity
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT – Residents of Rano Local Government Area (LGA) in Kano State are currently savouring a dramatic arrangement where a woman, Malama Khadija, deliberately quit her marital home to marry her daughter’s suitor.
According to reports by Kano-based Freedom Radio, the incident took place when the woman’s daughter, Aisha rejected her suitor. In the process, the mother, Malama Khadija, decided to have the man for herself because such was not prohibited in Islam.
Under the circumstances, the woman’s relatives are now accusing the Hisbah Commandant in Rano LGA of giving her (Khadija) out in marriage without their consent, adding that they do not even know where she is at present.
However, speaking to Freedom Radio on the development, Malama Khadija claimed to be healthy and hearty, adding that she was living happily with her new husband.
Malama Khadija stated that with her daughter’s refusal to marry the man, she felt both of them should not lose him which informed her decision to contact his family given that she also matches her daughter in being beautiful.
Hear her; “I didn’t do it with ignorance. I contacted clerics and they said it is not prohibited. When I contacted him, 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.”
But in his reaction, Malama Khadija’s uncle, Abdullahi Musa Rano, explained that the family refused to approve the Union because she deliberately dissolved her first marriage just to marry her daughter’s suitor who is not qualified to be her husband.
He further said; “Sadly, 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 are reporting it openly in order to bring out our daughter. We want the General Commandant and the State government to look into the matter”.
Contacted to comment on the development, the Hisbah Commandant, Ustaz Nura Rano, claimed that only the State Command of the Board has the right to speak on the issue.
On his part, the Kano State’s General Commandant of Hisbah, Sheikh Harun Ibn-Sina, called for calm by the aggrieved family, promising to investigate and address the matter according to Islamic injunctions.
