Kannywood actress, Hadiza Aliyu, often called Hadiza Gabon, on Wednesday dragged one Bala Musa, a civil servant, to a Magistrates’ courtroom sitting at Daura street, Kaduna, over alleged defamation of character.
The actress, who spoke via her counsel, Mr Mubarak Sani, mentioned she had suffered detrimental reactions and feedback from the general public because of the defendant’s false allegations towards her.
He added that individuals, particularly on social media, known as Aliyu a cheat who had refused to marry Musa after gathering his cash, an allegation “which was proved to be false”.
The defendant, via his counselor, Mr Naira Murtala, denied the allegation.
The Chief Justice of the Peace, Shamsudeen Sulaiman, requested the complainant’s counsel if that they had witnesses and so they answered in affirmative.
The Chief Justice of the Peace granted bail to the accused with the situation that he ought to current two dependable sureties who had been residents of Kaduna State and have to be civil servants.
He adjourned the matter to Nov. 15 for the complainant to current witnesses.
The defendant had filed a swimsuit towards Aliyu at Shari’a Courtroom l, Magajin Gari in March 2022.He accused the actress of refusing to marry him after he had given her N396,000.
The actress had then denied understanding Musa, saying she had by no means met or spoken to him earlier than and had no relationship with him in any way.
The complainant’s counsel had introduced a duplicate of financial institution assertion to the Shari’a courtroom and advised the courtroom that some 4 individuals had been the recipients of the cash claimed to be despatched to the defendant.
Two out of the 4, Fatima Abdullahi and Abdullahi Yusuf claimed to be the defendant’s good friend and private assistants.
They pleaded responsible for impersonating the actress and receiving cash in her title, praying the courtroom to forgive them.
After collection of prayers by Murtala, to switch the case to an Higher Shari’a Courtroom, the Decide then, Isiyaku Abdulrahman, on Oct. 31, dismissed the case and discharged Aliyu.
He ordered the defendant counsel and his shopper to pay N500,000 to the actress for losing her time.