Ex-Niger State governor Muazu Aliyu says Koran actually instructs men to be in the kitchen

FORMER Niger State governor Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu has contradicted claims by President Muhammadu Buhari that his wife belongs in his kitchen pointing out that the Koranic injunction actually stipulates that this function belongs to men.

 

Last month, President Muhammadu Buhari created a storm when in response to criticism of his government by his wife, he said she belongs to his kitchen, living room and other rooms. Hadjia Aisha Buhari has lashed out, saying a lot of people serving under her husband did not share his values.

 

Responding in what he later said was just a joke, President Buhari said his wife does not belong to any political party and is only there to help in his kitchen and home with domestic chores. However, Dr Aliyu, speaking in Minna, the Niger State capital, at the annual lecture series organised by Newgate College of Technology, said that although it is widely held that the place of the woman was in the kitchen, men also belong there.

 

Dr Aliyu, said: “Looking at the issue critically and in Islamic terms, it is actually the man that should be in the kitchen as provided for in the Holy Quran. The woman should only be in the inner room, while the men should provide all the needs of the woman, including making purchases from the market for the use of the family.

 

“Islam does not permit women to go out indiscriminately, as they are supposed to be in the house taking care of the children.”

 

According to Dr Aliyu, no matter the situation, especially during recession period, both husband and wife were supposed to work hand-in-hand by supporting each other for the good of the family and society. He also faulted men who took many wives under the guise of religion, saying the era of men taking many wives has gone.

 

“Those that have married more than one wife and claimed that the scriptures allow it are doing so ignorantly and out of the tenets of Islam. What the law says is that if you can be faithful and fair to two wives, you are allowed to take more than one wife but I don’t see how a man can be faithful and fair to more than one wife at a time,” he added.