‘I stopped sleeping with my husband after cheating on him’

By Aisha Gambo

A Kaduna mother of six, Mrs Tabitha Iliya, has told a an Upper Customary Court sitting at Daura Road, that she cheated on her husband, Iliya Yaran to get money to take care of her daughter’s medication.

The woman dragged her husband to the court to seek divorce over lack of love.

She told the told the court that her husband had failed in providing for the family,

According to her, since her intimacy with the other man, she stopped sleeping with her husband, who usually comes home after three months due to the nature of his work.

Iliya explained that she had also suffered verbal and physical abuse from her husband, which resulted to her packing out of her matrimonial house for more than a year now.

The divorce seeking woman said “one day, my friend, Esther, asked me to accompany her to a bar, where she was going to meet someone, and I followed her.

“While sitting and gisting, my husband and his friend came to the bar and he started calling me a prostitute and even called one of our sons on phone to come and see what I was doing.”

Iliya said that she left the husband’s house three days after the incident due to constant insults and demand to pack out of his house.

Thereafter, she said, she rented a room in another area and her husband kept threatening her and even tried to poison her diabolically.

She, therefore, prayed the court to dissolve the marriage so that she can have peace of mind.

The Judge, Patience Musa, while cross examining Iliya asked if she had contracted HIV and she answered in the affirmative.

When asked where she got it from, she said it was from God, adding that she no longer love her husband.

The judge then adjourned the matter till Sept. 29 for defence hearing.

However, shortly after the adjournment, the husband threatened his wife in court, saying she was still his wife and if he catches her with another man again, she would have herself to blame.

The judge quickly intervened and said the court had recorded his threat, adding that if anything happens to the wife, he would be held responsible.

(NAN)