“I didn’t do it with ignorance. I contacted clerics and they said it is not prohibited in Islam. When I contacted my new husband, he agreed, but my parents and relatives refused to do the marriage rites. That was why I decided to go to Hisbah and we are happily married now.”
Malama Khadija of Rano Local Government Area of Kano State has walked out of her marriage and married her daughter’s boyfriend.
The salacious event occurred after her daughter Aisha refused to marry the gentleman.
Malama Khadija’s relatives however told a local radio station in Kano that the Rano Local Government Area Hisbah Commandant was behind marrying off their daughter without their consent and that they do not know where she was.
But then, Khadija who spoke to the same radio station announced that she was living happily with her new husband and that her marriage was not forbidden in Islam.
The newlywed explained that on discovering that her daughter (Aisha) did not want to marry her former boyfriend, she felt they should not lose him.
Khadija said with the decision, she contacted his new husband’s family for the right thing to be done. She added that she was as beautiful as her daughter.
“I didn’t do it with ignorance. I contacted clerics and they said it is not prohibited in Islam. When I contacted my new husband, he agreed, but my parents and relatives refused to do the marriage rites. That was why I decided to go to Hisbah and we are happily married now.”
Khadija’s uncle, Abdullahi Musa Rano, said they refused to allow her to marry the man because she deliberately dissolved her first marriage in order to marry her daughter’s suitor who was not qualified to be her husband.
“She mounted pressure on her husband to divorce her, just to marry the man. We can’t do this shameful thing in our family which was why we refused to join them in marriage. We are not happy with what Hisbah did and we want them to bring out our daughter. We want the General Commandant and the State Government to look into the matter.”
When they were contacted, the Hisbah Commandant in Rano, Ustaz Nura Rano, said only the State Command of the Board had the right to speak on the issue.
On their part, the state’s Hisbah Commander General, Sheikh Harun Ibn-Sina, said an investigation into the matter was still ongoing.
Likewise, sometime in 2020, 75-year-old Galina Zhukovskaya married her 52-year-old former son-in-law which sparked a massive controversy in Russia.
Galina from St. Petersburg, Russia married Vyacheslav Zhukovsky, after her 56-year-old daughter, Elena divorced him.
The 23 years gap between the couple was not what shocked many but the fact that Vyacheslav was Galina’s son-in-law for three years when he was married to her daughter Elena.
Vyacheslav reportedly divorced Elena over infidelity shortly after he was released from prison and he found refuge with his mother-in-law.
It is gathered that Vyacheslav met Elena met while serving time in a Murmansk prison for killing his former employer over unpaid wages.
Elena responded to Vyacheslav’s dating ad in a local newspaper and they hit it off. The couple married in 2007 in the very prison Vyacheslav was held.
The marriage crumbled when Vyacheslav was released from prison and he moved into her home in St. Petersburg. Only their marriage quickly fell apart.
Galina claims that her daughter cheated on her husband shortly after his release and eventually kicked him out of the house. With no place to go, Vyacheslav was condemned to homelessness, but his mother-in-law took pity on him and took him into her home. She admits that she didn’t do it out of love, she was just sorry for him, but as time passed, they drew closer.
The unusual couple got married in 2010 and have been together ever since.
Galina claims that her daughter has always been envious of their relationship and has been trying to break them up.
“My daughter is probably jealous that mom is not alone. I have someone to talk to and she doesn’t,” Galina Zhukovskaya told the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda. “She wants us to separate. She often sends her 30-year-old daughter, born from another man, to seduce him.”
Galina has faced backlash, criticism, and judgment from relatives for taking her daughter’s ex-husband but she and Vyacheslav remain steadfast in their love.
Two years ago, they planned to have a baby together and even managed to find a surrogate mother, but they were deceived. The woman took their one million rubles payment and got pregnant, but the DNA test showed that the baby was not Galina’s and Vyacheslav’s.
The marriage has had its own rocky period like when Vyacheslav looked for another woman.
Galina forgave him, blaming his attempt on his playful nature, and his habit of flirting with other women but never going any further. She did tell him that if he wanted someone else he should just leave, but he decided that he was better off with her.
“Do you know what I like about Galina? I’m sure she won’t cheat on me, I’m tired of cheating,” the 52-year-old man said.
Another concern for the 75-year-old pensioner is that her apartment is also at stake. As her husband, Vyacheslav stands to inherit her home if she passes away, something that her family cannot accept.
Galina’s case is similar to that of a Russian influencer Marina Balmasheva who announced her upcoming marriage to a stepson she helped raise for 10 years.
Marina was married to Vladimir’s 45-year-old father Alesky for 10 years before she announced that she is romantically involved with Vladimir.
She later revealed she is pregnant with her stepson’s baby after recently divorcing his father.
She shared the news with an Instagram video in which she hands Vladimir the positive pregnancy stick, after which they shared an emotional embrace.
