I told her that it was only her, Mimi, who could enter the back room where Hajiya Yaya usually sits to do her hair.
Tana Batsewa was also there washing and braiding hair.
The maid was there with a tray, but she didn’t know how to pass in front of the two of them.
The words she was saying were that Mimi should speak softly so that no one would hear.
She also said that Mimi shouldn’t make her sit in front of her for lectures, that she already knew what was being said.
The maid also said that Mimi was always with her in the room where they used to braid her hair.
Tana Kuka was also saying that she was tired of all the rumors.
“… I saw that you were the one who was talking to my son, and it was you, Makaranta, who came to tell me that my son-in-law was being disrespectful to me.”
She was also saying that she saw the two of them and that she was the one who told him to go and tell his mother.
As for you, Fata, when you came in, I was just sitting down.
Aura Zata said, “I was in the house when I heard that he had taken something to his mother.”
But I didn’t see anything, I just heard voices.
Wani Na’Haj said that it was she who told the maid to put the food in the back room.
She also said that she herself doesn’t have the knowledge to come and sit and talk like that.
She said that she only does what she’s told by her elders before she does anything.
That’s why she didn’t agree to go and talk to him because she saw that he was angry.
She said that if she had gone, he might have beaten her.
That’s why she went to call Kabiru so that he could go and talk to him.
She also said that she was the one who told Habiba to go and tell her husband about what was happening in the house.
She said that she was the one who told Niko to also go and talk to Habiba.
Niko herself said that she didn’t know what Sulaiman was doing with that girl.
She said that it was Kabiru who told her that Sulaiman was the one who put her in trouble.
She also said that Kabiru told her to tell her husband to help her.
Dubilrahim said that he was the one who told Kabiru to go because she was afraid that if she went herself, something bad might happen to her.
So Sulaiman’s wife said that’s what she said.
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He was shocked and said that he had joined them.
He said, “My son, I don’t have anyone else. Why are you saying this to me?
Wasn’t it me who told you to do it?”
He said, “I love you, my son. From my heart, I love you.
By Allah, I don’t have anyone else apart from you.
That’s why I took care of you and raised you until you grew up.”
Rijiyar said, “Rijiyar, go and bring water for me.”
Abubakar said, “Yaya Ibrahim, you did this, you and Sulaiman.”
He said that he heard that Kabir said he didn’t know anything about the money that was missing.
I, Imam Mudi, Hajiya Yaya, and Taji were in the room when Yatsana came in crying and said that all her jewelry was gone.
So he said, “Let’s go and report it.”
Kenan said, “You are my daughter-in-law. Don’t say such things about my son.”
Zuciyarikizin said, “Nana, I beg you in the name of Allah,
Don’t say that about my son Ibrahim.
By God, it was Sulaiman who did it.
I swear to you, don’t punish me.
