Whereas people, especially ladies now go out in public almost naked, even as some of them engage in sex in open places, especially, around clubs and other public places, many women now engage in keeping two or more husbands.
What is worrying is that the bug is catching on amongst the Northern Muslim women.
As a matter of fact, when a story was first narrated a couple of weeks ago, about an obviously a Northern Muslim woman who killed herself as a result of trying to maintain two husbands, I quickly dismissed it and never wanted to think about its possibility. It neither sounded enticing nor news worthy, for, it is never a news in the context of the contemporary world, especially, in the Western culture, to hear about a married woman flirting.
However, as days went by, the weight of the narrative began to dawn on me, especially, when it involved a situation in which a woman being divorced by her husband continued to maintain sexual and other relationships with the man (the former husband) after having married to another one.
It even became more interesting or sad, when the new husband took the woman away from Zaria where she and her former husband lived, to his home in Abuja, the nation’s Federal Capital Territory and yet, the woman still commuted to Zaria at slightest opportunity to reunite with her old husband.
The narrative had it that the ex husband had, for one reason or another, divorced the 28 year old woman, but was lucky to have gotten another man who did not waste time in marrying her.
The new husband relocated her from Zaria where she not only lived with her ex husband but her parents.
After sometime, the new husband found out that she was still in touch with her ex husband by way of telephone contacts. In most cases, she and her ex husband would send romantic text messages to each other. When the new husband discovered the strange relationship, he warned the woman to stop it, and even replaced the sim card of his wife’s phone, just so as to obliterate the ex husband’s contact information.
Only God knew where she subsequently fetched the contact (number) of her ex husband, from where they continued with their romantic chats.
The narrative had it that whenever the woman’s new husband went on business trip, at times for a week or two, she would sneak into Zaria to enjoy herself with the ex husband. She would target when her Abuja husband would return from the trip and would herself, return to Abuja a day before.
But, on that very day, the Abuja husband returned three days before the day he told his wife he would come back, and behold, his wife was not in the house. He tried her cell phone but was switched off.
The man quickly rushed to Zaria to check if she went to see her parents. The parents were themselves surprised, as they said that their daughter had never came back to them since he (the Abuja man) married her.
And as God decreed that her cup had filled up, the Abuja husband, along with the woman father, sighted her as she was being driven in another man’s car, heading to the motor park in Zaria. The Abuja man trailed the card and at the motor park, it was his wife that alighted from another man’s car.
The Abuja man did not know the man, but her father recognized him as the husband that divorced her. Her father could not stomach his daughter’s effrontery and accosted her with the fact. Just before she could explain herself, the Abuja man pronounced divorce on her and asked her to go and remove all her belongings from the Abuja house.
The wayward woman later went to her parents in Zaria and asked her mother to accompany her to Abuja to pack her things. And while in Abuja, and while her immediate past husband went out to buy snacks and soft drink for her mother, the distressed woman went out to buy a gallon of petrol.
She returned, hiding the gallon of petrol under the Hijjab (veil) she wore, before her ex Abuja husband returned to the house. And before anybody could say Jamila, she had emptied the petrol on herself and struck a match on her body. She instantly began to burn as her Abuja ex husband, her mother and people in the neighbourhood rallied round to put off the raging fire.
Before the fire subsided, she had not only sustained first degree burn, her ex husband too was badly burnt.
Nevertheless, she was still rushed to a general hospital in the satellite town. The medical officers at the hospital were quick to understand that it was the case they could not handle, and therefore, referred her to Asokoro hospital.
She gave up the ghost before she got to the hospital.
Now, the question that has been agitating the minds of those who witnessed the incidence and those who have the misfortune of hearing the narration is: what is the dead woman going to tell her God! [myad]
