A middle-aged man has been ordered to re-marry the wife he divorced after infecting her with HIV/AIDs virus.
This was the verdict of an upper Shari’a court sitting at Sabon Gari,
after the case was brought before it by the aggrieved wife.
The husband by name, Abdullahi Ahmad was dragged to the court by
ex-wife Umma Usman, who told the court that the defendant had divorced
her and asked her to vacate his house after infecting her with the
dreaded disease.
The victim informed the honourable court that both have been living
together as a couple for about 13 years and that she had several
children with him before she later found out that he is HIV/AIDs
positive.
The court also heard that the defendant issued the hapless woman a
divorce letter knowing fully that he infected her with the disease.
Umma is praying the court to quash the divorce issued to her by her
husband and compel him to re-marry her since he is the one that infected
her.
In his verdict, the Judge, Malam Farouk Ahmad, granted the
complainant’s plea, canceled the divorce issued to her by the husband
and ordered him to immediately re-marry her.
Judge Ahmad said under Islamic Shari’a Law, “it is binding on the
husband to stay with the woman for the rest of his life being the one
responsible for her getting an infection that has no known cure.”
He ordered him to take good care of the woman henceforth.
