A Igando Customary Court in Lagos, on Thursday dissolved a 23-year-old marriage, after efforts to reconcile the couple failed. The case was brought to the court by the husband, Mr Tunji Oyedele, who accused his wife of adultery, engaging in fetish activities and attempting to kill him. The wife, Romoke, a 40-year-old trader, who denied the allegations, told the court that the man was sending her away because he now has a new wife. The president of the court, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, said the court had no option than to separate the couple as the husband was adamant to all mediation efforts by the court and his family.
Earlier, Oyedele had accused his wife of 23 years of engaging in segxwal recklessness and infidelity.
Pastor wanted to take her to a river for a special bath to avert spiritual attack,”
“I believe that my persistent illness, which has deferred medical solution, is as a result of her fetish acts. “I have been forced to leave my own house because I don’t want to die now,”
The 52-year-old businessman, who presented the pictures of the charms as exhibit, also said that his wife got pregnant for another man after she had their first baby. My wife abandoned our 10-month-old baby for me and got pregnant for another man. She came back after some years and I accepted her,” he said.
According to him, his wife has no respect for his family.
He also said his wife chased away his first wife who did not bear him any child by always mocking and calling her a barren wife. Romoke refuted the allegations, insisting that she was not adulterous.
The 40-year-old trader said she was not fetish and did not know how the charms got into her room. The mother of four denied abandoning their baby to get pregnant for another man, saying it was her husband that chased her out of his house.
She said that she and her husband had lived in peace until January 2016, when he married a new wife.
“His new wife accused me of sending hired killers to her and my husband turned me into a punching bag,”
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