16-year-old housewife seeks dissolution of marriage over alleged husband’s brutality
A 16-year-old housewife, Fatimah Mohammed, on Tuesday asked a Karu Upper Area Court, Abuja to dissolve her 2-year-old marriage with Tasiu Kasim, over alleged brutality and failure by Kasim to provide food for the family. “We got married in 2015 and I have a child for my husband, but since we got married there was no peace in the marriage. “He is always fighting with me over petty and insignificant issues, he always beats me up whenever issues arise and this beatings are now unbearable for me. “ Several times he was warned by elders in both families to stop beating me, but he refused.’’ Mohammed also accused her husband of leaving his responsibilities to her mother, who catered for them. “ My husband also abandoned his responsibility of taking care of me and my child; he doesn’t buy us clothes and other basic necessities. She also accused her husband of being jealous and in the habit of accusing her of dating other men. “ My husband is very jealous and because I a...