A man, Fatai Agboola, has pleaded with the
Shomolu Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve his marriage of 10 years to
Temitope.
Their union produced three children; however, the
last child had died.
Agboola told the court that since he married his
wife in 2002, he had not had peace of mind.
He stated that his wife had been very troublesome
and always got into fights.
He claimed that there was no love between them
and if they continued to stay together one might kill the other.
Fatai, a commercial tricycle rider, said he had
on several occasions got calls while he was at work that his wife was fighting
again.
He said, “She fights too much. I have not had
peace of mind since we got married. My family members have abandoned me because
of her. They say they do not want her trouble.”
He added that she had been detained in a police
station because she fought somebody.
He claimed that he had been evicted from four
apartments because of his wife’s troubles.
He gave an example of a day he got a call that
their house was on fire. The inferno, he claimed, caused the death of their
last child.
“There was a time she was fighting with someone,
while they were fighting, she pushed the person and the baby the person was
carrying fell into a pit. She was detained because of that,” he said.
Fatai told the court that his wife was a flirt.
He said that she was very promiscuous and always stealing his money.
He said, “Whenever I am going to the bathroom or
toilet I wear my clothes because if I drop them, she would ransack my clothes
and steal my money.”
He told the court that he had brought his wife to
the same court five years ago for the same reasons but she was still not
repentant.
Reacting to her husband’s claims, Temitope told
the court that he was lying.
She blamed the problems of her family on her
mother-in-law.
She said that her husband’s mother was not in
support of their marriage from the beginning.
She said she was no longer interested in the
union but her husband should provide her with accommodation.
“My husband’s mother has not been in support of
our marriage from the beginning. No matter what I do for her, she is never
satisfied. My husband hardly eats my food since we got married.
“There was a time I travelled to my village in
Ijebu, his mother told him that I went to bring poison from my village.
Coincidentally, I bought ewedu leave when I was coming. When my husband saw it,
he asked me what the black thing in it was.
“I told him it was just dirt but he went to meet
his mother that it was true that I wanted to poison him. His mum was part of
those who brought me to court five years ago, claiming I hypnotised her son,”
Temitope said.
Temitope told the court that when her husband
accused her of having sex with other men when he was away, she swore with the
Holy Quran that it was a lie. She said that they had sex that night.
She got pregnant not too long ago and her husband
refused to take up the responsibility. He later asked her to abort it.
She said she aborted the child and that would
make it the fifth child she had aborted in one year.
When the court asked Fatai’s mother to comment on
the issue, she said the court should grant them whatever they wanted as she
could not force them to stay together against their wish.
The court presided over by Mrs. Modupe Bajulaiye,
told Temitope to find a temporary apartment pending the conclusion of the case.
She adjourned the case till Dec. 7, 2012.
Punch
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