A housewife, Hajiya Rabi’atu Ahmad, on Tuesday at Shariacourt in Rigasa area of Kaduna to compel her husband AdamuAliyu to take care of their ill son.

The complainant told the court that their son had been suffering from a heart disease which requires surgery.

”My husband has refused to source for funds for the surgery.  We were hospitalised at the teaching hospital in Kaduna but my husband sought for a discharge without the doctor’s approval.

”We are currently on medication since we can’t afford the surgery. He refuses to buy the medicines, saying he was tired,” she said.

The defendant said he was not financially buoyant.

The judge, Mallam Abubakar Salisu-Tureta, ordered the defendant to take the child back to the hospital for medical care as soon as possible.

He adjourned the matter Dec. 12.