Admin I Tuesday, August 15, 2017
IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – A 79 year old prophet by name Moses Bolaji has dragged his wife, Prophetess Deborah Bolaji to an Agege customary court to end 9 their year old marriage.
Moses Bolaji told the court that he met his wife in 2009 while he was undergoing a training at Assembly of God church in Idimu where he noticed that the respondent, a widow was living in the church with 5 children.
He told the court that he decided to marry her out of pity so that he can take care of her and her children, moreso when the respondent was a prophetess and believed they could work together.
The petitioner claimed that respondent attitude suddenly changed and that she became nasty and uncontrollable.
“She quarrels with church members and always having issue with my elder children ,believing that I am the one encouraging them to be rude to her. She has always been teasing and tormenting me to beat her but I refused because of the law “, he said and that his prestige as a church leader was at stake and could not bear her anymore .
The respondent, Debora Bolaji (45), a traditional nurse who hailed from Aiyetoro, Ogun State ,told the court that she met her husband since 2007,and started living together in 2009 and that her family was against the marriage due to age different.
She claimed that the petitioner was ungrateful and that he nearly lost his life due to sickness. “I took care of everything moving him from one hospital to another ,only two of his children came to see him”, she said . She told the court that it was after marriage she discovered that the petitioner had five wives with sixteen children
President of the court, Mr. Philip Willians adjoined the case till August 17,2017.
