A five-year-old marriage is on
the brink of collapse as Mrs. Musilimat Olasuyi has told an Igando Customary
Court in Lagos that her husband, Oluwagbemiga, permitted another man to sleep
with her in their matrimonial home.
The 48-year-old trader told the
court on Monday that the man made love to her in her matrimonial home with her
husband’s approval.
“It was not my fault.
“I did not voluntarily submit
myself but the man in question charmed me to make love to me with my husband’s
agreement all because of his selfish ambition,” she said.
The petitioner said that her
husband threw her belongings out of her matrimonial home in the process of
which the money(over N800, 000) she kept inside her different boxes were
stolen.
“I went to the hospital to take
care of my daughter from my first marriage, who suffered from a gas explosion.
“There, I was told that my
husband came with some boys to our matrimonial home to pack all my belongings
outside.
“After some days; I came home and
I discovered that all my boxes and bags had been ransacked; some were missing
and my money was stolen.
“My jewellery valued at N250, 000
and the N250, 000 that was given to me by my son-in-law to start the
construction works on his landed property close to us were missing.
“Also, N100,000 for my customer’s
cassava (garri), N250,000 being our mosque’s money kept in my custody and
N30,000 my trading money got missing.’’
Musilimat submitted a written
petition to the court seeking redress and judicial actions against her husband.
The estranged wife wanted to know
if it was proper for her husband to throw her property out without an order
from the court.
She also demanded to know if her
husband would not be liable for the cost of her lost money and property.
The petitioner was also
requesting the court to know if her husband should not pay for the
inconvenience as she and the only child of the marriage are homeless.
She pleaded with the court to
dissolve the union saying that she no longer loves her husband.
However, the petitioner’s
husband, Oluwagbemiga, accused his wife of infidelity.
“My wife does not have respect
for her marriage vow, she makes love to her concubine on our matrimonial bed.”
The 55-year-old sand supplier
also said that his wife was fetish.
“My wife is diabolical, she comes
home with different charms and objects; she gave me a soap on nine consecutive
times to bath with.”
According to him, he had given
his wife a three-month quit notice to vacate his house but she refused.
“I gave her a quit notice to
leave my house; she told me to do my worse that she was going nowhere.
“So, I do not have any other
option than to pack her things out from my house,” he said.
The respondent consented to the
dissolution of marriage, saying the love between the two of them had long
faded.
Responding to Musilimat’s
petition, the court’s president, Mr. Akin Akinniyi, said that it was wrong in a
valid marriage for a husband to pack out his wife’s belongings from their
matrimonial home.
“It is legally wrong for a man to
throw out his wife’s property.
“The respondent should have
requested for the return of the dowry he paid on the wife from the wife’s
parents.
“Better still, he should have
sought the dissolution of the marriage at the court of law before such an
action could take place.
“The husband should have rented
another apartment for the petitioner and the child since he does not want her
again.
“He should have moved her
belongings there for safe custody, before the petitioner’s return.
“The husband will be responsible
for any cost of missing valuables and the wife is entitled to compensation,’’
he said.
Akinniyi urged the estranged
couple to maintain peace and adjourned the case until April 26 for judgment.
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