A Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari in Kaduna State on Wednesday ordered that a trader, Abdulhamid Yakubu, of Bakin Dogo, be given 80 strokes of cane for denying the paternity of his sixth child.
The couple had been married for 21 years and the defendant, Muhammad, gave birth to the sixth child, named Abdulaziz, whose paternity is in question.
The judge Murtala Nasir, declared 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 father of his pregnant wife.
The court, however, gave Yakubu an option to swear an oath or provide proof regarding the paternity of the affirmation of the pregnancy not being his, but he refused.
