Court Orders Arrest Of Mother Of Twins For Contempt

Ms Aliyu failed to present her children in court as instructed by the Shari’a court.

Shari’a Court in Kaduna on Monday ordered the arrest of Sadiya Aliyu, a mother of twins, for disobeying a court order.

Ms Aliyu failed to present her children in court as instructed by the Shari’a court. The judge, Anass Khalifa, had ordered Ms Aliyu to present the children in court so their father could see them.

He gave the order after Ms Aliyu’s Lawyer, Hassan Sulaiman, raised a preliminary objection that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain the child custody case.

Mr Sulaiman told the court that he was unaware that a copy of the appeal had not been submitted, which was why the complainant refused to present the children in court as ordered during the last hearing.

Earlier, the defendant, Umar Sulaiman, an ex-husband to the complainant, told the court that he had not been given access to his children for a year.

In 2022, the court granted Ms Aliyu custody of two children aged three with the condition that they spend the Sallah holidays with their father.

The court had also ordered that the father be allowed to see his children when needed, an order which the complainant disobeyed.