From Desmond Mgboh, Kano
The 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has called for sanctions against wife beaters and perpetrators of violence against women, insisting that no good Muslim should beats his wife.
The monarch spoke on Monday during a courtesy call by development Research and Project Center (dRPC) in collaboration with the Centre for Islamic Civilisation and Interfaith Dialogue.
He decried the spike in the rate of violence against women and tasked Islamic clerics and Imams to take up the matter in their teachings and sermons with a view to ensuring a change of behaviour.
Speaking in Hausa, the monarch stated that, “I never believe in beating women, and those who do, are not beating their wives with the intention of reforming them. What we see today is even serious beating and injuring of women in name of reforming them.
“Islam has respected and dignified women more than any other religion and all those seeking cover under it to abuse women do not even underrated the religion. Whosoever beats and injures his wife is not a good person. I did not say this, it is the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) who said it. It is those who do not read that don’t know.”
The monarch urged the two Non- governmental organisations to work together to revive the Kano State family draft that addresses most of the GBV challenges in the state.
He insisted that, “All the legal frameworks needed are already on our Islamic jurisprudence books, all that is needed is to bring them out and put tthem ogether as a draft for use.
“During my PhD, thesis, which is on codification of Islamic family law, I studied nine Kano Shari’a courts over the period of five years, and the findings show that the trend of GBV is rampant in our society. That is why I told all my district heads and village heads that anyone caught beating his wife does so at the risk of losing his title” he said
Earlier, CICID Director, Dr Taofeek Abubakar Hussain, told the monarch that the project has trained Shari’a court judges and Islamic clerics on ways of adjudicating on GBV related issues and help them deliver judgement with ease.
Dr Hussain also pleaded with the emir to consider revisiting the Islamic family law draft and called on him to allow them to train traditional title holders under his emirate on roles they could play addressing the issue.
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