Popular musician, the one with torchlight, Zakki Azzay’s marriage has hit the rocks, eight years after it was consumated.
The estranged wife of the music crooner Hadiza Azzay said she decided to end the marriage after enduring 8 years of constant beating.
The 29 year old mother of three reportedly packed out of her husband’s house on April 17th after being badly battered the day before by Zaaki. She was able to leave with two of her children, but the third one, her eldest child, is still living at home.
The ex-couple are now involved in a bitter custody battle, with the police cooling frayed nerves and abritraors.
According to Hadiza, he had been battering her for years, sometimes he would beat her so much she would faint, but her family kept telling her to go back to him for the sake of their children. She said she left him twice last year but returned to him after much pressure from family and friends. But when the battery continued, she made up her mind to end her marriage for good because she didn’t want to be another dead wife.
Hadiza a housewife, is presently under the care of an NGO that takes care of battered women. They have given her and her children shelter and are taken up her case.
A press statement we believe will be issued at a later date to detail her ordeal.
The musician is yet to react, but sure when he does we will give you his own side of the story.