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Housewives chained for 10 months narrate how husband tortured them, put pepper in their private parts

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Two housewives, whose husband, Samaila Musa, allegedly locked up, chained and subjected to inhumane treatment for 10 months in the Rimi Local Government Area of Katsina State, have narrated their ordeal.

The Katsina State Police Command had in January arrested 30-year-old Musa for allegedly chaining his wives in a room in his house and subjecting them to all sorts of maltreatment for 10 months.

The women, Fatimah Salisu, 25, and Hadiza Musa, 20, have urged a Katsina Upper Sharia Court to dissolve their marriage to Musa over alleged cruelty and maltreatment.

In an interview with ThePunch, interpreted by their counsel, Kabir Nelule, the women revealed that they got married to their husband just a week after meeting him and he went ahead to pay N20,000 each to their respective parents as bride price.

While Hadiza has been married to Samaila for close to two years now, Fatimah said she has been with him for 10 months.

Hadiza said:

“When we met, he was generous to me and promised to take care of me and my parents.”

Fatimah said:

” Whenever he came to our house, he always gave me money and he promised to do more if I married him.”

The generousity didn’t last for long, as the women claimed Musa started maltreating them just a few days after they got married.

According to Hadiza:

“Two weeks after we got married, he started restricting my movements in the house. Later, he locked me up in a room and chained me up.”

Fatimah added:

“He started beating me four days after we got married. He also started calling my parents names. Later, he locked me up and chained me up in the same room with Hadiza.”

Hadiza narrated further:

“He shaved off my hair and pubic hair. He also cut my fingernails and ground them together. He mixed them up with my food and ordered me to eat it. He also put pepper in my eyes and private parts. And whenever he wanted to have sex with me, he would do it in the presence of Fatimah in the room where we were being locked up. (Fatimah tries to remove her clothes to show the wounds on her back before she was prevailed upon not to do so).

“My back is full of scars from the wounds I sustained from the beatings he always gave me.

“He would also not allow us to go out. We were doing everything inside that room. We bathed, defecated, and slept in the same room. He would have sex with us there.”

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Fatimah said:

“He shaved off my hair and pubic hair too. He also cut my fingernails as he did for Hadiza, and forced me to eat the food he mixed those items with. He also put pepper in my private parts and eyes. He also had sex with me in the presence of Hadiza. Everything he did to her, he did it to me.”

Ask whether Musa was acting under the influence of drugs, Hadiza said

“We did not offend him and I can’t say whether he was on drugs or not. All I know is that he always went out in the night when he presumed we were asleep. He always locked the doors of the house whenever he was going out.

“Nobody visited him and since we were locked up, we did not have the opportunity to see our friends or relatives to tell them how we were being maltreated.”

How they gained freedom:

Fatimah said:

“Remember I said I have a three-year-old boy from my previous marriage. One day, Samaila returned the boy to my mother in our village without my knowledge. It was the boy who told my mother about our ordeal. So my mother came but she did not raise the issue. She asked me whether everything was alright and I said yes.

“My mother visited again 21 days later. When she arrived, she told Samaila that the boy was sick and that she wanted to get my sewing machine so that she could sell it and raise money for his treatment.  Samaila refused and manhandled my mother. My mother then went to Rimi Divisional Police Station to report the matter.

“When the police came, he refused to open the door for them. Later, the divisional police officer led another team to the house, which forced the door open and found us where we were chained up. He was subsequently arrested.

Hadizah also confirmed the story.

The women have no child for Musa yet.

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