My husband charmed me, wife tells court
A 39-year old
woman, Adejoke Omotosho has told the Igando customary court to dissolve
her 16 year old marriage to her husband Musiliu Omotosho.
She had alleged that her husband had used charms to marry her.
According to her,
when she met her husband for the first time, he discussed at length on
the love he had for her and why he wanted to marry her. “I refused
outright because I was already engaged to be married and had started
wedding preparations with my boyfriend at that time.
“On another day,
he came again the only thing I could remember was that he touched me and
before I knew what was happening, I had followed him to his village
and gave birth to three boys. Now my eyes are clear and this is not whom
I am meant to marry; so I want a divorce”.
A 39-year old
food vendor said when she went with him nobody looked for her because
she is an orphan and now that she has woken up and got her senses back.
She said she wanted dissolution on the grounds of infidelity, lack of
care and threat to life
She said her
husband constantly brings his lovers to their one room apartment to
spend days and months before leaving not minding that she is in the
house with the kids
“I had to leave
the bed for them and slept on the floor on four occasions I had
reported him to his family. Recently he came home with a lady who
stole my pants and brassier, I discovered that after she had left.
“I told my husband to retrieve my underwear from his lover and he came home with a bra and pant but they were not my own.
The mother of four boys said that her husband was always threatening her life
“My husband
threatened to kill me, my hair dresser informed me that anytime I
finished making my hair that my husband came to ask her to give him my
hair. And he said that if I leave him, he would kill me and run away”.
She said she is the one responsible for feeding the family, paying the house rent and children’s school fees
She begged the
court to dissolve the union that she was scared of contracting sexually
transmitted diseases from her husband due to his womanizing habits.
The 47 year old
bricklayer denied some of the allegations and accepted that he had
lovers and that one of her lovers took his wife’s underwear but that he
returned them.
He however said he pays his bills and gives her N500 everyday. “But she assists me as a good wife should” he said.
The respondent asked the court to beg his wife as he still loves her
The president of the court, Adegboyega Omilola adjourned the matter for July
12 for further hearing.
He also urged the couple to try and resolve their issues before the next hearing.
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