A Shari’a Court sitting in Rigasa, Kaduna on Tuesday sentenced a woman,
Hauwa Babangida to nine months imprisonment with an option of fine, for
assaulting her junior co-wife Badiya Abdullahi.
The judge, Malam Dahiru Bamalli, sentenced Babangida after she pleaded guilty
to assault.
The judge, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N28,000.
Earlier, the complainant, Abdullahi told the court that Babangida entered her
room and beat her up, injuring her face badly.
She prayed court to intervene in the matter and get her justice.
In her defence, the convict told the court that she beat up Abdullahi because of she
insulted her.
“I didn’t use any weapon. It was just a girl’s fight,” she said.
