AISHA ABUBAKAR
A housewife, Mrs. Bashirat Mohammed, has dumped her husband, Toyin Ajibola and opted out of their marriage over his inability to provide for his family in Kwara State.
The embittered wife, Mrs. Bashirat Mohammed, consequently filed for divorce in order to end the marriage which produced children because she was said to have become tired of her husband’s lack of money to take care of the family.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that her prayers were answered as an Area Court at Centre-Igboro in Ilorin, Kwara State, dissolved the Islamic marriage between Toyin Ajibola and Bashirat Mohammed on grounds of lack of money.
The presiding judge, Hammad Ajumonbi, while delivering the ruling said that even though Ajibola did not want to release his wife she still needed to move on and not be left stranded.
He therefore, dissolved the marriage and granted the custody of the three children from the marriage to the wife and ordered the woman to observe the three-month iddah (waiting) period before she could remarry.
Despite the lack of money, which caused the break up of their marriage, the presiding judge, Ajumonbi, still ordered Ajibola to be responsible for the feeding of the children to the best of his ability.
“He should have unrestricted access to the children and the mother should always make the children available any time their father requested,” the judge said..
The embattled Mrs. Bashirat Mohammed had earlier told the Court that she was tired of the marriage due to lack of money and her husband’s irresponsibility.
“I want the Court to grant me divorce so I can have rest of mind,” she said.
However, the husband told the Court that he is still interested in his wife even though he was financially handicapped at the period.
“I have been trying hard to get money to feed my family, but couldn’t. It is so painful that I can’t get money to visit her and the children when they left home,” he said.
However, that did not prevent the Court from not dissolving the marriage as the marriage was officially dissolved and the parties were asked to go their separate ways.