An Upper Area Court in Abuja has placed a perpetual injunction restraining Hadiza Musa Baffa from attributing her baby’s paternity to a former minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Kabiru Turaki.

Judge Adamu Isah, in a judgement delivered on September 4 sighted by Daily Trust, ordered her not to use the result of a DNA test against the ex-minister. 

The judge said the ruling was about the determination of paternity test of a child born outside of wedlock under Islamic law.

SPONSOR AD

“A perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, whether by herself, her agents, privies, servant or by any other person acting through her or for her from publishing in the social or traditional media, any content, statement, image or material suggesting or ascribing the defendant child born outside wedlock to the plaintiff (Turaki),” the judge ruled.

The ex-minister had filed the application seeking the court’s intervention in the alleged use of the police by family members of Musa Baffa, his wife, Uwani Arabi and daughter, Hadiza Baffa to harrass him.

Hadiza had alleged that Turaki molested and abandoned her after putting her in the family way.

However, the ex-minister alleged that Ms. Uwani pleaded with him to serve as Guardian for her daughter, Hadiza, which he did by seeing to her upkeep without knowing they had changed her surname to Turaki without his knowledge.