These were the words of a middle-age trader, Shola Abdullah, as she
sought the dissolution of her eight-year-old marriage to Lanre, at the
Alagbado Customary Court in Lagos.
She alleged that her husband was fond of beating her.
Mrs Abdullah said: “My husband and I are strangers in our home. We have never had a cheerful moment. Whenever I talk, he would rain curses on me. He accuses me of adultery. I don’t know his plans for me because I am treated as a slave. His attitude is weird. Whenever he sleeps with me, I always see myself vomiting a gecko in my dream. Strangely, I always wake up with a swollen stomach. He once took me home during a church service only to sleep with me and later dropped me off at the church. It’s been a month since I left home. Am not missing anything because we don’t relate well.”
The marriage, which was contracted under Native and Customary Law, is blessed with three children.
But her husband is insisting on the marriage. Abdullah told the court: “My mother didn’t do anything to our first child. We were told our first child had measles which made her deaf. I have had to buy a hearing aid worth thousands of Naira. My wife has never supported me. I opened two shops for her but she couldn’t maintain it. Whenever there is an argument, she leaves the house leaving me with our children. I have never sent her away. I want her back. I have never accused her of adultery.
“The court’s President, Mr. Olubode Sekoni, ordered Abdullah to write an undertaken never to maltreat his wife again.
He adjourned the case till January 22.
She alleged that her husband was fond of beating her.
Mrs Abdullah said: “My husband and I are strangers in our home. We have never had a cheerful moment. Whenever I talk, he would rain curses on me. He accuses me of adultery. I don’t know his plans for me because I am treated as a slave. His attitude is weird. Whenever he sleeps with me, I always see myself vomiting a gecko in my dream. Strangely, I always wake up with a swollen stomach. He once took me home during a church service only to sleep with me and later dropped me off at the church. It’s been a month since I left home. Am not missing anything because we don’t relate well.”
The marriage, which was contracted under Native and Customary Law, is blessed with three children.
But her husband is insisting on the marriage. Abdullah told the court: “My mother didn’t do anything to our first child. We were told our first child had measles which made her deaf. I have had to buy a hearing aid worth thousands of Naira. My wife has never supported me. I opened two shops for her but she couldn’t maintain it. Whenever there is an argument, she leaves the house leaving me with our children. I have never sent her away. I want her back. I have never accused her of adultery.
“The court’s President, Mr. Olubode Sekoni, ordered Abdullah to write an undertaken never to maltreat his wife again.
He adjourned the case till January 22.
Culled from Thenationonlineng
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