Abuja's rising divorce rate among young couples is concerning: Judge

BY: News Peddlers 

A photograph was used to depict divorce.

The judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Magistrate Court, Ayuba Abubakar, has expressed concern about the high rate of divorce among young couples in the FCT.

Mr Abubakar was speaking at the Afemai Islamic Movement's Annual Ramadan Lecture in Abuja on Sunday, with the theme "The Role of Parent in Raising God-fearing Children."

Before marrying their children, parents should follow Islamic regulations, according to the scholar.

According to him, most parents do not follow the instructions of the Holy Quran, but instead only do what their children want when it comes to marriage.

”As a judge, we are having a high rate of divorce, especially the rate in the FCT is so alarming, young couples in two years, three years marriage, dragged themselves to courts. And we discovered that in so many of it there is no other way than to just separate them to live in peace,” stated the magistrate.

Mr Abubakar added, “The implication is that if we don’t follow the Islamic regulation by making prayers to Allah for guidance and follow the Islamic teaching, their will be domestic problems. This teaching is for the husband to know his duty and his rights and for the wife to lower her duty and rights and by the time you think of those rules, it is to bring harmony in our homes.”

He explained that, while divorce was permissible in Islam, it was also despised.

Mr Abubakar urged parents to play an active role in their children's decision to marry.

"As a Muslim, you must ensure that your home is an Islamic home, one in which you recite the Quran and take turns gathering the children and teaching them Allah's word." You teach them the words of the prophets and not only allow them to have a Western education but also include Islamic education as this will ensure your children are pious Muslims," he added.

Momodu Kadiri, chairman of the Afemai Islamic Movement's board of trustees, stated that the movement's goal was to promote Islam among the Edo people of Abuja and Muslims throughout the country.

Mr Kadiri urged Muslims to work together to advance Islam's good course. He was referring to the 2001 movement.

The Afemai are an ethnic group in northern Edo, Nigeria's South-South geopolitical zone.

They control six Etsako West local government areas, with headquarters in Auchi, Etsako Central, Etsako East, Owan East, Owan West, and Akoko Edo.

(NAN)