Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammad Sanusi II, says he always tells his daughters when they are getting married that if their husbands slap them, he expects them to return the slap.
Mallam Sanusi made this known at the National Dialogue Conference on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention from an Islamic perspective themed: ‘Islamic teachings and community collaboration for ending Gender-Based Violence’ organised by the Centre for Islamic Civilisation and Interfaith Dialogue (CICID), Bayero University Kano (BUK) in collaboration with the Development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) with support from Ford Foundation.
The Emir said wife beating, domestic violence form 45 per cent of cases across nine Shari’a Courts of Kano in five years as there is no verse of the Qur’an that encourages wife battering
According to him they just slap these women and punch them and kick them and beat them.
The Monarch said he just wrote a Doctorate Thesis on family law, and did research on nine courts, nine Shari’a courts in Kano as 41% of the cases over a five-year period had to do with maintenance, 26 per cent had to do with harm and out of those, 45 per cent were cases of wife beating
The Emir noted that there are women whose limbs have been broken, teeth knocked out and victims of constant beating with sticks and described women,wives and daughters beating as a crime and haram.
Mallam Sanusi called on parents to teach their daughters not to take it and also teach the sons that it is not allowed to happen as it is grossly unacceptable
