A woman,
Azanat Bashiru has asked a court in Ilorin to dissolve her marriage of two
years as she has refused to stay in purdah. The purdah practice requires married Muslim
women to stay in separate rooms, behind a curtain or dress in all-enveloping
clothes, in other to say out of the sight of men or strangers.
However, Bashiru
told the court that Mumin Bashiru, her husband of two years and father of their
two children, did not tell her before they got married in 2014 that she would
be putting purdah.
"This is
not in our agreement. I cannot be covering my body with black cloth, including
my eyes, all of the time," she said.
Mumin did
not raise any objection. "If she doesn’t agree to be in purdah, she is free to
go," he said. But he demanded custody of their two children.
NAN
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