Hadiza Azzay has ended. The marriage actually ended four months ago
but we are all getting to know about it now because the ex-couple are
involved in a bitter custody battle. The police are even now involved.
29 year old Hadiza told me she packed out of her husband's house on
April 17th after being badly battered the day before by Zaaki. She was
able to leave with two of her children, but the third one, her eldest
child, is still living at home.
She claimed he had been battering her for years, sometimes he would
beat her so much she would faint, but her family kept telling her to
go back to him for the sake of their children. She said she left him
twice last year but returned to him after much pressure from family
and friends. But when the battery continued, she made up her mind to
end her marriage for good because she didn't want to be another dead
wife.
Hadiza was a housewife, so since leaving her husband she has been
under the care of an NGO that takes care of battered women. They've
given her and her children shelter and are taking up her case.
She will issue an official press statement telling her side of the
story in the coming days...right now she's dealing with the police who
arrested her for allegedly 'kidnapping' her own children. She says
Zaaki has been using the police to harass her. We are also looking to
get Zaaki's side of the story. More on this later..