An area court in Kubwa in Bwari Area Council of the FCT has ordered a businesswoman, Ehsan Ahmed, to allow her former husband, Sa’ad Abubakar, have access to his children.
The Judge, Malam Yahaya Sheshi, specifically ordered Ehsan to allow Abubakar see the two children aged six and five every Saturday from 9am to 6pm and on Sundays.
Sheshi also ordered that the children should be allowed to spend one week from their school holidays with their father.
He added that Abubakar could communicate with his children through Ehsan’s Ahmed’s cellphone or her mother’s.
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The judge warned that any attempt to deprive Abubakar access to his children would be treated as a disqualification factor of right to custody.
Earlier, Abubakar alleged that his former wife denied him access to his two children for eight weeks.
He filed an application to the court for the enforcement of a judgment given on the custody of his children to compel his ex-wife to allow him access to them.
He told the court that, “Following the judgment given by the court, I am to pick up my children from my ex-wife on Saturday mornings and return them back to her on Sunday evenings, but I have not seen them for eight weeks.
“Picking them in the morning is to give me enough time to take them out for recreational activities.
“I also want my children to be in touch with my family and culture and would want them to be with me for half of their holidays and the other half with their mother.” The respondent, however, said that contrary to the plaintiff’s claim, she had never frustrated or prevented him from picking his children up.
She said, “Our children are the ones refusing to go with him when he comes to pick them up.
“The plaintiff demanded to pick them up at 10am on Saturdays and drop them off at 6pm on Sundays, but I want him to pick them at 11am on Saturdays and bring them back at 5pm on Sundays.
“Our children aged six and five wake up by 5am during the weekdays for school and Saturday is a sleeping day for them to rest.
“I want them to be dropped off at 5pm on Sundays because they go to bed at 7pm to have enough time to prepare for school.” (NAN).
