Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Emir of Kano, has emphasized that no decent Muslim should beat his wife and has advocated for harsher penalties for those who commit gender-based violence (GBV) in Kano State.
The Emir lamented the state’s escalating rape and domestic violence rates during a speech at his palace on Monday, July 21, while hosting a team from the Development Research and Project Center (dRPC) and the Bayero University Center for Islamic Civilization and Interfaith Dialogue (CICID).
Speaking in Hausa, the monarch stated that, “I never believe in beating women, and those who do, are not beating their wives with the intention of reforming them. What we see today is even serious beating and injuring of women in name of reforming them.
“Islam has respected and dignified women more than any other religion and all those seeking cover under it to abuse women do not even underrated the religion. Whosoever beats and injures his wife is not a good person. I did not say this, it is the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) who said it. It is those who do not read that don’t know.”
The monarch urged the two Non- governmental organisations to work together to revive the Kano State family draft that addresses most of the GBV challenges in the state.
He insisted that, “All the legal frameworks needed are already on our Islamic jurisprudence books, all that is needed is to bring them out and put tthem ogether as a draft for use.
“During my PhD, thesis, which is on codification of Islamic family law, I studied nine Kano Shari’a courts over the period of five years, and the findings show that the trend of GBV is rampant in our society. That is why I told all my district heads and village heads that anyone caught beating his wife does so at the risk of losing his title” he said
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