Housewife in Gombe sues husband for biting, beating her
Story from Najibullahi ADAMU
A woman, Lawiza Muazu of Unguwa Uku area of Gombe State, has sued her husband, Alhaji Muazu before a criminal area court at Unguwar Idi for allegedly biting her while they were quarrelling.
Presenting her complaint to the court on Monday, Lawiza alleged that the husband also beats her regularly when they have a misunderstanding.
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The woman added that the latest quarrel she had with the man was when she refused to cook food for the house claiming that her action was as a result of non-provision of firewood or charcoal by him.
“When he beat me for the first time, I went home but my father asked me to go back. But my husband later resorted to biting me after the beating. He would bite my fingers for refusing to cook food.”
She, therefore, asked the court to dissolve her marriage with Muazu saying she could no longer tolerate him.
Responding to the allegations, the husband Alhaji Muazu denied biting and beating Lawiza.
He said she refused to cook for one week which contravened the gentleman agreement that his two wives would serve food to the house on their cooking days.
He said it was as a result of that that the co-wife Jummai refused to give Lawiza the food she cooked.
“In protest of not being served by her co-wife, Lawiza got hold of me demanding for her right. She put her hands in my pocket trying to remove money by force. It was as a result of it that quarrel ensued between us but I never bit her”, he said.
The presiding judge Alhaji Garba Abubakar adjourned the hearing to Monday next week to enable the wife to present her witnesses.
