Paternity Fight: ‘My New Husband Owns The Child’ – Says Woman Married To 2 Men

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

The popular saying that it is only a woman that actually knows the father of her baby is really playing out in Lagos. A woman, Mrs. Taiwo Oduntan, who got married to two husbands at a period, has caused a serious problem as they are now fighting over the ownership of the woman’s only child.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that Mrs. Oduntan, who resides at Amudu Street, Mushin, first got married to one Olajuwon George, who lived at Railway, Mushin, Lagos.

During the period she lived with  George, she got pregnant and had a baby girl before the marriage collapsed and she left.
Recently, she got married to another man, Samahd Quadri, who lives at Ogunsanya Street in Mushin. She then took the child to him and told him that he was the real father of the child despite the fact that she was living with George then as his wife.

The new husband, Quadri, believed her, accepted the child and since then there has been real fight between the two men, who are claiming paternity of the child. But the woman at the center of it all, Mrs. Taiwo, was said to be insisting that it is her new husband that owns the baby. 

It has degenerated to a big fight as it has dragged on from both families to the Police even getting to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba and now to a Lagos Court over the paternity dispute. 

P.M.EXPRESS scooped that at the SCID, the Police interrogated Taiwo and found her and the new husband culpable for conspiracy by taking the child she had when she was living with George.

It was not confirmed if there was any DNA test conducted by the Police to confirm, who is really the father of the girl in question.

However, the Police have charged both Taiwo and Quadri before the Ebute Metta Magistrate Court for conspiracy and misdemeanor by carrying a child she gave birth to while with George to her new husband, Quadri.

They pleaded not guilty before Court. 

The prosecutor, Inspector O. Kehinde, asked the Court to give a short date for hearing to enable the Police to prove that they actually know the alleged offence.

The Presiding Chief Magistrate, Mrs. A. A. Oshoniyi, granted them bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.

The matter was adjourned till 16th August, 2021, while the defendants were remanded in Correctional Centre at Ikoyi, Lagos, pending when they will perfect their bail conditions.