By: Monday Danladi, Bauchi
Bauchi State Commissioner for Water Resources, Abdulrazak Nuhu Zaki has described the petition of child abduction against him by one Iklima Manu Soro as baseless, unfounded and very unfortunate.
Reacting to the petition submitted at the Office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Nuhu Zaki declared that, “How can I abduct my own biological daughter? Zainab Nuhu Zaki is my biological daughter and I have every right over her both religiously and constitutionally.”
He narrated that he was married to her mother under the Islamic law of marriage but due to unreconcilable reasons with the family, the marriage failed as they had to get divorced.
According to him,”It was not my intention to divorce my wife because we loved each other but pressure from her family especially her two brothers and their mother did not make it work forcing her to leave the house.”
The Commissioner commended the late father of the woman, Manu Soro, the Uncle, Musa and others who played roles to ensure that the marriage worked and even tried to remarry them after the first divorce but the three people stood against the arrangement.
Nuhu Zaki while narrating the situation, said that he got judgment in his favour from three different courts, yet he was denied access to the girl even after the mother had remarried.
“Now that she is married to another person and my daughter, Zainab Nuhu Zaki is no longer comfortable in the house, she chose to stay with me and her siblings. What is wrong with that? Now they are running up and down for no just cause,” he added.
According to him,”I did not kidnap nor abduct her, I only enforced the various judgements of the Courts and the Shariah Commission. Zainab Nuhu Zaki is my daughter and I have claimed her. She is now in a boarding school with three of my other daughters and nothing can change that.”
The Commissioner assured that he ready to do anything legal and Islamic to protect any of his children no matter who is involved urging the family to stop chasing shadows for nothing.
