HAUWA Ibrahim is a Muslim from Kano State; she resides in one of the villages in the federal capital territory that is fast becoming an urban slum. She is in our early forties with six children the third of which is a polio victim. She is married the Islamic way to a man who already had two wives so Hauwa is the third and for now the youngest of her husband’s wives. She is not sure yet if her husband, a security guard would not marry a fourth wife, because Islamic injunctions entitles him to four wives.
Hauwa would not disclose the total number of children her husband has, in her innocence she said she did not believe her polio infested child is as a result of her not exposing him to the vaccines to stop the virus in its track. Her husband would hear none of that she confessed. After all there are other children in the family and they are all on their feet except her third child. The condition of the child must be the will of Allah she reasoned.
Hauwa would not disclose the total number of children her husband has, in her innocence she said she did not believe her polio infested child is as a result of her not exposing him to the vaccines to stop the virus in its track. Her husband would hear none of that she confessed. After all there are other children in the family and they are all on their feet except her third child. The condition of the child must be the will of Allah she reasoned.
