Wife to court: I left my matrimonial home when the beatings became too much

A housewife, Shamsiyya Surajo, on Wednesday dragged her husband, Surajo Abdulkadir, to a Sharia Court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna, over alleged assault.

The petitioner told the court that her estranged husband constantly beats her, adding that, “my husband’s parents and mine had to intervene on several occasions.”

She said that when the beatings became too much, she had to leave the house.