I Can’t Continue! My Husband Is An Armed Robber – Wife Tells Court

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A housewife, Mrs. Bosede Aregbesola, has narrated before the Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, how she married her husband, Aina, for six years but did not know that he was an armed robber until he was caught and jailed. 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that Mrs. Bosede stated this before the Court, where she filed a divorce suit seeking for the dissolution of their marriage on grounds that her estranged husband, Aina, was an armed robber.

Mrs. Bosede in her testimony, said: “Immediately I got pregnant, he was arrested, convicted and sentenced for armed robbery in Ondo. I waited until he completed his jail term, thinking that he would change. However, I discovered that he still had his old ways”. 
An embittered Abosede said Aina refused to introduce her to his mother. She also accused him of adultery and threat to her life.

She pleaded with the Court to dissolve their marriage so that she will move on with her life.

Aina, who claimed to be working with a Yoghurt company in Ibadan, opposed the suit. He did not deny most of the allegations leveled against him.He prayed the Court to prevail on his wife to stay with him because she stood by him in his trying years.

He said: “There is no woman like Bosede. She is everything to me and i never threatened her life. If my lord will grant her request, please, give me an unhindered access to my child”.

Chief Ademola Odunade, the President of the Customary Court, while delivering judgement, advised intending couples to know their partners well before entering into marriage to reduce the rate of divorce.

He said that lack of understanding has made some couples to quit marriage after observing some behaviours in their spouses.

Odunade pronounced the six-year old marriage dissolved and awarded custody of the only child to Aregbesola.
He ordered Aina to pay N5,000 monthly as child support.