Admin l Friday, March 10, 2017
AGEGE, Lagos, Nigeria – A judge presiding over a customary court in Lagos was stunned on Thursday when a lovely lady unfolded what can best be obtained in a medieval slave camp in the 21st century.
The lady in question, a trader by name Akinkunmi Yemisi had approached the court to dissolve her 21-year old marriage, citing constant battery, and threat to life.
Yemisi claimed her husband has been brutalising her since 1998 when she had their first child.
“Our problem started after I gave birth to my first child and he mandated me to start performing the Muslim rites despite the fact that he knew I was a christian before he married me.
“He always forced me to observe the muslim’s prayers, though he was not a practising Muslim when I met him and wherever I fail to do that, he will beat me severely. He will normally ask me to kneel down and stretch my hand like a small child whenever he wants to flog me.
“I was involved in petty trading until he lost his job two years ago and things became a bit difficult. I decided to help him by joining a co-operative sociery where I took a loan of N100,000 on his behalf.
“I handed over the money to him immediately the loan was approved and I told him to invest it in his transportation business.I also begged him not to fail in paying the money back as expected”, She added.
The petitioner however said that her husband refused to pay the N2,500 that he was expected to weekly until the N100,000 loan is paid in full. Instead, he will abscond from home for days.
“He has threatened to kill me on many occasions, whenever I asked him to pay the money back because the Co-operative is also on my neck.
“When the threat became serious, I took his case to a popular television show, ‘Labe Orun’ but his family did not want the matter to be aired and we sorted it out among the family”, she told the court.
The respondent, Akinkunmi Wasiu however pleaded not guilty to all the allegations levelled against him by his wife.
“I married my wife 21-years ago and we were all living in peace until I lost my job two years ago.
“She started flirting around when she was given a job in a company. She called me sometimes in the year 2015, that she was tired of the marriage and wanted to leave, I begged her not to leave and we all went to bed that night only for me to return from work the next day and found out that she has packed out of the home.
“This is not her first time of leaving but we resolved it earlier and she moved back home”, he said, adding that he caught her red-handed with her lover, hence she absconded from home since then.
The court however, ordered the couple to embrace peace.
