A 20-year-old wife, Amina Hassan, from Shuware community in Mubi North LGA, Adamawa State, set her husband’s house ablaze for refusing to divorce her.
Amina, who married Muhammed Auwal about five weeks ago, revealed that there was a pre-wedding arrangement for the man to divorce her shortly after their marriage ceremony.
She informed the police that she set the house on fire because her husband refused to end their union, according to the state Police Public Relations Officer, Suleiman Nguroje.
“We had an arrangement that he would divorce me after the marriage. I met him and pleaded with him to divorce me, but he remained adamant.
He started beating me instead of granting the divorce, which made me lose my temper and set the house ablaze,” she told police operatives now investigating her.
Reports show that a few days before the wedding, Amina had informed her parents that she was no longer interested in the marriage.
However, her parents insisted there was no turning back as they had already distributed invitation cards.
Sources close to her said that after all her efforts failed, she sought help from a native doctor to turn her husband’s heart away from her, only for the husband to appear more interested.
To escape her anger, the native doctor fled Mubi and made his phone number inaccessible.
