It was another melodrama at a customary court in Lagos, when a woman, Mrs. Fatimo Ajao lamented on how her husband uses her as a sex machine, beats her over flimsy excuses and runs away from his family responsibilities.
The middle aged women, pleaded with the court to dissolve her 19-year-old marriage over abandonment.
The mother of three, who lives at No.13, Odunbaku street, Ogba, filed for the dissolution on what she described as “threat to life, lack of responsibility and absence of love”.
Giving her evidence, she recalled her ordeal in the hands of her woman-beating husband. ”When I delivered our last baby, my husband promised to foot the naming ceremony bills, but his phone was switched off until the evening of the ceremony when he reappeared”, Fatima said.
”My husband is not responsible; he came around 7p.m. after we had named the baby and was asking for the child’s name.
”He absconded from the house after our second baby and used to come to the house once in a while, make love to me, then go back to where I don’t know.
”I endured because I didn’t want to be moving from one man to the other, but now that he threatens to kidnap my children, I want the court to dissolve the marriage.
”My children did not recognise their father after four years of abandonment. He came back and when the children did not go to him, he promised to kidnap them”.
The worried woman also revealed to the court that her husband had long remarried.
”I want the court to dissolve the marriage and grant me the custody of the children”.
Contrary to the allegations levelled against him by his estranged wife, Jamiu, a commercial vehicle driver, who lives at 573, Adebimpe Street, Ketu, claimed he still loves his wife and wouldn’t wish for a divorce.
”I might not be a perfect husband, but I know that I am better than some husbands who beat their wives”, he said.
”I want my wife to give me a second chance, I would change. I don’t want to divorce her. I am still in love with her.” After listening to both parties, the Juror advised them to maintain peace and stay out of each other’s trouble. He therefore adjourned the case to Dec. 5 for further hearing.
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