“My husband allows another man make love to me” – Wife wants 5-year-old marriage dissolution
A displeased wife identified as Mrs Musilimat Olasuyi has asked the Igando Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her union with her husband.
Musilimat, 48, has been married to Oluwagbemiga for barely five years.
The trader accuses her husband of being in support of her sexual relations with another man.
She also said Oluwagbemiga was stealing her money.
“It was not my fault. I did not voluntarily submit myself but the man in question charmed me to make love to me with my husband’s agreement all because of his selfish ambition,” she told the court on Monday (today).
Musilimat further explained to the court how her husband threw her belongings out of her matrimonial home.
She said she kept over N800,000 in different boxes when she was away but the sum was stolen by Oluwagbemiga.
“I went to the hospital to take care of my daughter from my first marriage, who suffered from gas explosion,” she said.
“There, I was told that my husband came with some boys to our matrimonial home to pack all my belongings outside.
“After some days; I came home and I discovered that all my boxes and bags had been ransacked; some were missing and my money stolen.
“My jewelery valued at N250, 000 and the N250, 000 given to me by my son-in law to start
Oluwagbemiga, however, accused his wife of infidelity.
“My wife does not have respect for her marriage vow, she makes love to her concubine on our matrimonial bed,” he told the court.
The 55-year-old sand supplier also said that his wife was fetish.
“My wife is diabolical, she comes home with different charms and objects; she gave me a soap on nine consecutive times to bath with.”
According to him, he had given his wife a three-month quit notice to vacate his house but she refused.
“I gave her a quit notice to leave my house; she told me to do my worse that she was going nowhere.
“So, I do not have any other option than to pack her things out from my house,” he said.
The court’s president, Mr Akin Akinniyi, said that it was wrong in a valid marriage for a husband to pack out his wife’s belongings from their matrimonial home.
“It is legally wrong for a man to throw out his wife’s property.
“The respondent should have requested for the return of the dowry he paid on the wife from the wife’s parents.
“The husband will be responsible for any cost of missing valuables and the wife is entitled to compensation,’’ he said.
Akinniyi urged the estranged couple to maintain peace and adjourned the case until April 26 for judgment.
