AISHA ABUBAKAR
A housewife, Mrs. Tabitha Iliya, has told the Court that she stopped sleeping with her husband, who usually returned home every three months, due to the nature of his work and she opted for another man who satisfies her needs.
Thus, Mrs. Tabitha has filed a suit against her husband, Iliya Yaran, before an Upper Customary Court sitting at Daura Road, Kaduna, Kaduna State, praying for divorce over lack of love.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the embattled Tabitha, mother of six, told the court that her husband has failed in providing for the family, a situation that made her cheat on him in order to get funds to purchase their daughter’s drugs.
“I have stopped sleeping with my husband, who usually returned home every three months due to the nature of his work, since my intimacy with the other man.”
She explained that she had also suffered verbal and physical abuse from her husband, which resulted to her packing out of her matrimonial home for over a year now.
Tabitha stated, “One day, my friend, Esther, asked me to accompany her to a bar, where she was going to meet someone, and I followed her”.
“While sitting and gisting, my husband and his friend came to the bar and he started calling me a prostitute and even called one of our sons on phone to come and see what I was doing.”
Embittered Tabitha said that she left her husband’s house three days after the incident due to constant insults and his demand that she packed out of his house.
The plaintiff stated that she rented a room in another area, but that her husband kept threatening her and even tried to poison her through diabolical means.
She therefore, prayed the court to dissolve their marriage so that she can have peace of mind and move on with her life.
The judge, Patience Musa, asked Yaran to cross-examine his wife, who then asked her if she had contracted HIV and she answered in the affirmative. When asked where she got it from, she said it was from God, adding that she no longer loved her husband.
The judge then adjourned the case.
However, shortly after the adjournment, the husband threatened his wife in court, saying she is still his wife and if he catches her with another man again, she will have herself to blame.
The judge quickly intervened and said that the court had recorded his threat, adding that if anything happens to the wife, he would be held responsible.