CYRIACUS IZUEKWE
A 45-year old businessman, Chike Aroh, became emotionally frustrated in Lagos after his wife, Chioma, denied him sex for 12 months and told him that her private part was meant for her lover and not him the husband any longer.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that following the frustration, the embittered Chike has filed a divorce suit before the Igando Customary Court asking the Court to dissolve their 17-year old marriage, which had produced three children.
Chike told the Court that Chioma, with whom he had three children in their 17-year old union, had been unfaithful insisting that Chioma brings her lover into their matrimonial home.
“My children used to tell me that their mother usually brings a man home and they always entered our bedroom and locked the door. When I confronted her, she could not give me any reasonable answer.”
“She had been denying me sex for over 12 months, but gives it freely to her lover” the petitioner told the Court.
The estranged husband said that his wife was also a street fighter.
“ My wife used to embarrass me in public; she fights with everybody on the street over slight provocations” Chike said .
He said that Chioma sometime in the past left their matrimonial home to an unknown destination for months without his knowledge and permission.
The petitioner said that his wife was an irresponsible wife and mother.
“She is very lazy; does not wash nor cook. I do the washing and cooking” he said.
Chike said his wife was an unrepentant drunk; that she was fond of drinking to stupor and would afterward misbehave.
Chike said that his wife, who had failed to appear in Court after being summoned, was in the habit of always threatening his life with bottles, knives among other weapons.
He pleaded with the Court to end the loveless marriage, adding that he was no longer interested.
“Separate us before she kills me” he pleaded with the Court.
The President of the Court, Mr. Adeniyi Koledoye, in his judgment said that it was obvious from available testimony and the respondent’s refusal to appear in Court that the marriage had hit the rocks.
“Throughout the duration of this case, the respondent refused to honour Court processes. Therefore, the Court has no other choice than to dissolve the marriage.
“ The Court hereby pronounces the marriage between Mr. Chike and Mrs. Chioma dissolved today.”
“Both parties, henceforth, ceased to be husband and wife. Both parties are no longer husband and wife; they are free to marry any partner of their choice, without any hindrances and molestation” Koledoye said.
The judge, however, ordered Chike to pay a severance of N150, 000 to Chioma for her to start a new life.
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