A woman in Kwara State – Awawu Haruna – has been remanded in prison custody after being accused of marrying two husbands.
The Kwara State family court ordered her remand in the Ilorin correctional facility for taking the step to marry someone else while still married to another man.
Haruna’s legal husband filed a suit against Awawu and her father at the Kwara State family court.
Her legal husband Sule complained that his wife married another man without the dissolution of their marriage.
The man told the court that his father-in-law played a prominent role in his marriage with her daughter under Islamic law and rites.
He revealed that Haruna’s father played a prominent role in facilitating her marriage with the other person whilst they are both still legally married.
He further revealed that on August 6, 2022, the father-in-law facilitated another marriage between his daughter and one Jemilu Bahause while the marriage contract with him was still subsisting.
“Alhaji Haruna Danjuma, who is the father of my wife Awawu, to conceal the illegality, relocated her daughter and the new husband, Jemilu Bahause to an unknown location and they have since been living together as husband and wife,” Sule told the court.
Magistrate Abdulraheem Bello adjourned the case to September 26, 2022, for a hearing.
