A woman has been remanded in prison after being alleged of marrying two husbands in Kwara state.
The woman whose name has been given as Awawu Haruna is presently cooling off in Ilorin correctional facility for taking the step to marry someone else while still married to another man.
Haruna’s legal husband filed a suit against Awawu and her dad at the Kwara state family court.
Sule disclosed that his wife married another man without the dissolution of their marriage.
The man told the court that his father-in-law played a prominent role in his marriage with her daughter under Islamic law and rites.
He revealed that Haruna’s father played a prominent role in facilitating her marriage with the other person whilst they are both still legally married.
He further revealed that on August 6, 2022, the father-in-law, facilitated another marriage between his daughter and one Jemilu Bahause while the marriage contract with him was still subsisting.
“Alhaji Haruna Danjuma who is the father of my wife Awawu, to conceal the illegality, relocated her daughter and the new husband, Jemilu Bahause to an unknown location and they have since been living together as husband and wife,” Sule told the court.
Magistrate Abdulraheem Bello adjourned the case till September 26, 2022, for a hearing.
Bello ordered the couple and the father-in-law to be remanded in the federal Correctional facility, Ilorin the Kwara state capital.