Marrying my daughter’s boyfriend was not a regret—Kano woman

Malama Khadija, a married woman in Kano State’s Rano Local Government Area, ended her own union and married the lover of her daughter.

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The incident took place after the woman’s daughter, Aisha, turned down a suitor.

NewsReport gathered that in their response, the woman’s family claimed to not even know where the woman was and accused the Hisbah Commandant of Rano LGA of marrying off their daughter without their permission.

But speaking to the radio station also, Malama Khadija said she was living happily with her new husband. She added that her marriage was not prohibited in Islam.

She explained that after realizing that her daughter (Aisha) had decided not to marry her former boyfriend, she felt that both of them should not lose him.

Khadija said that with the decision, she contacted her new husband’s family for the right thing to be done. She added that she was as beautiful as her daughter.

“I didn’t do it with ignorance. I contacted clerics, and they said it is not prohibited in Islam. When I contacted him (the new husband), he agreed, but my parents and relatives refused to do the marriage rites. That was why I decided to go to Hisbah, and we are happily married now.

Khadija’s uncle, Abdullahi Musa Rano, said they refused to allow her to marry the man because she deliberately dissolved her first marriage in order to marry her daughter’s suitor, who was not qualified to be her husband.

“She mounted pressure on her husband to divorce her just to marry the man. We can’t do this shameful thing in our family, which is why we refused to join them in marriage. We are not happy with what Hisbah did, and we want them to bring out our daughter. “We want the general commandant and the state government to look into the matter.”

When contacted, the Hisbah Commandant in Rano, Ustaz Nura Rano, said only the state command of the board had the right to speak on the issue.

However, when contacted, the state’s Hisbah Commander General, Sheikh Harun Ibn-Sina, said an investigation into the matter was still ongoing.