A woman, Aisha Lawal, on Thursday dragged her ex-husband before a Sharia Court ll in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, saying he might have impregnated her.
“My husband divorced me on February 25. After I got to my fathers house with our daughter, who is about three-years-old, a month ago, I missed my period,” she told the court.
The ex-husband, Ibrahim Yakubu, admitted that he could be the father of the unborn baby
”There is every possibility of her getting pregnant. I will accept the child if it is mine,” Yakubu said.
Judge, Musa Sa’ad-Goma, who confirmed the divorce, ordered the complainant to go for a pregnancy test and come along with the result on April 24 for ruling.
Sa’ad-Gona also held that a fixed amount of money would to be paid monthly to the complainant for her upkeep and that of her daughter and the unborn baby after the test.
