It was a case of polygamy gone awry recently in Kano state when a jealous housewife resorted to deadly violence when she could not force her husband to either stick to her alone or divorce her. Mustapha Adamu reports
Residents of Kauyen Alu, Unguwa Uku, Tarauni LG in Kano state, were baffled when they rescued Muhammed Kabiru, aka Alhaji Cindo from the death threat of his wife Hadiza, who incised his testes with a knife.
Kabiru said he could not report the incident to the media at the time because he was battling for his life at a hospital.
42-year old Kabiru, a trader in Kwari Market, described Hadiza as a notorious wife who wanted to force him to divorce her but which he refused.
“She heard that I had married a girl from Katsina Ala, a daughter of Sarkin fulani Benue (King of Fulani,Benue), Benue state, but she said the marriage would not be possible.”
“We had quarrels and she had mounted pressure on me to dissolve the marriage, saying the girl is not better than her. I said I would not terminate the marriage because it is enjoined in our religion to marry more than one wife and that even her father has two wives.”
Kabiru told our reporter that one fateful morning, as he was preparing for market, she just appeared in to his room with a knife, forcing him to divorce her.
“She entered into my room, grabbed my collar forcefully, shouting at me to divorce her while holding a knife and threatening to inflict injury on me. When I said I would not divorce her, she angrily grabbed my manhood and cut up my testes.”
“I fell unconscious and when I regained consciousness, I became terrified when I noticed that my testes had been incised. I quickly got a rag and tied the place up to stop the blood before going to hospital.”
“She went out of the house and started screaming that I was threatening to kill her.”
“When the neighbours came I showed them what she had done to me and they rushed me to hospital to save my life.”
Hadiza was arrested by the people and handed over to Hisbah Command. He then requested for his children and pleaded with the command not to punish her for their children sake.
“I collected my children and divorced her, but I have forgiven her for the children and her father, who is very kind to me. He always consoled me if we had quarrel and went to the house to punish or caution her not to offend me again.”
Kabiru also called on men to investigate before marriage to avoid being married to a bad woman. He also prayed for Hadiza to stop her bad habit.