A trader, Abdulhamid Yakubu, of Bakin Dogo, was on Wednesday sentenced to receive 80 strokes of cane by a Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, for denying his sixth child’s paternity.
The Judge, Murtala Nasir, affirmed that the child belonged to Yakubu.
Nasir also ordered him to take responsibility and provide for all his children.
Yakubu, had in September, dragged his wife, Maryam Muhammad to the court, alleging that she was an adulterer and he was not the owner of her pregnancy.
The plaintiff had earlier been given an option to swear an oath or provide proof regarding the paternity of his affirmation of the pregnancy not being his, but he refused. The couple had been married for 21 years.
