”He didn’t make love to me for eight months. ”After our wedding, I
stayed for five years without an issue. Throughout the period, life was
unbearable for me. ”I developed high blood pressure in the process
but my husband did not feel concerned.”
These were part of the testimony of a 39-year-old woman who urged an
Agege Grade ‘B’ Customary Court to dissolve her 11-year-old marriage
over battery and threat to life.
Mrs Oluwatosin Abiodun, a trader, of 5, Bemil Street, Ojodu, told the
court that her husband treated her like a slave and made life
unbearable for her.
”I lived in hell on earth. I lived in fear, pains and anguish. I
kept all these to myself because I didn’t want my home to break”,
Oluwatosin said in her evidence-in-chief.
”The worst part of it was that my husband was dating a neighbour’s
wife and even brought her to my matrimonial home and I caught them pants
down.
”My husband is now married and the other woman is right inside his
house. ” While with him, he would beat me with iron rod. He pampered me
when I was delivered of a baby, after that, he resumed his beating
habits. “I am tired of the marriage.
I want the court to end the union and grant me custody of the
children. The 42-year-old husband, Olatunji Abiodun, an engineer, did
not appear in court. Meanwhile, the court president, Mr Emmanuel
Shokunle, adjourned the case till Feb. 19 for judgment.
Culled from Vanguard, Nigeria.
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