Nasiru Musa Idris, husband of a Moroccan woman at the centre of a dispute involving Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has accused the cleric of keeping his wife away from him for about 11 months.
Idris, speaking to RFI Hausa, claimed that he took his young wife to Gumi for counselling after the cleric requested to speak with her, but she stopped answering his calls after the meeting.
“For 11 months now, my wife has been in his hands through injustice and ill treatment. He has no relationship with her; she had never known him. The only place they knew each other was through me,” Idris claims.
He said the dispute later escalated over Gumi’s demand for another marriage certificate from a Sharia Court, despite the couple having marriage documents from Morocco and Nigeria.
“I told him that I did not agree with the marriage certificate he told me to obtain. Later, he went to the Sharia Court in Malali and asked them to issue one to him,” Idris Said.
