MICHAEL AKINOLA
A businessman, Mr. Saheed, has told the Court how he got married to his wife, Kafayat, but she opted to be sleeping with his younger brother thereby scattering his extended family. P.M.EXPRESS reports that Saheed disclosed on Wednesday at Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, that his wife, Kafayat, was caught at different times in bed with his younger brother.
He lamented that the alleged romance with his brother had caused disharmony in his extended family.
Saheed made the allegation while responding to a divorce suit filed by his wife before the Court presided over by Chief Ademola Odunade.
He said that he had doubts that the two children produced by the marriage belonged to him.
“The real reason I consented to Kafayat’s request for dissolution of our marriage is that she is evil and has torn my extended family apart because of her waywardness.”
“Anytime I went on business trip, family members, especially my dad, usually catches Kafayat sleeping with my immediate younger brother. Despite his warning, Kafayat kept luring my brother into unholy romance.”
“My father had threatened to disown me if I don’t send her away. Despite the problem, I have never failed to be responsible for the two children except that I no longer live with Kafayat” he told the Court.
Saheed added that his wife repeatedly cursed him, thereby causing him setbacks.
“I have pleaded with Kafayat to give me the custody of the children but she would not listen and she might likely mislead them,” Saheed said.
However, Kafayat told the Court that her husband was irresponsible.
“We stopped living together since 12 years ago and Saheed does not make any provision for our children. In fact, the second child cannot recognise him either as a father or anything because she had never sighted him.”
“Though he requested to take charge of the first child, I refused to give him because he would not send him to school. Even when the child was dying of sickness at the University Teaching Hospital, Ibadan, Saheed did nothing about it, though I told him,” Kafayat said.
She, however, did not respond to the allegation of sleeping with her brother-in-law.
In his ruling, Odunade directed the duo to bring their relatives and their two children to Court.
He adjourned the case until 17th December, 2019, for judgment, urging that they should maintain peace.