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  • My wife commits adultery with my typist, husband tells court

    A 65-year-old man on Friday told an Ibadan Customary Court, sitting in Agodi, how his wife of 38 years committed adultery with his typist while he was away on official assignment.

    The husband, Mr Alaba Aigbe, had asked the court to dissolve his marriage with Veronica over alleged adultery and witchcraft.

    In his testimony, the complainant said that while he was on official assignment in Jigawa in 2006, he asked his typist to be collecting his salaries and give to his wife.

    “Since the assignment will take a year to complete, I asked my typist to receive my salaries on my behalf and forward it to my wife because I did not want her and the children to suffer when I was away.

    “My typist used the opportunity to woo my wife and they started the illicit affairs until 2007 when I returned home.

    “I suspected the immorality when things turned upside down for my family and I sought for spiritual solution.

    “It was in the course of finding solution to the problem that I got to know about the relationship between her and the typist.

    “She confessed to me but said the typist only fingered her private part on four different occasions when I was away.

    “I told her that the only condition to forgive her was to follow me to my village to make some rituals and appeal to my family gods because adultery is abomination in my village.

    “She refused to follow me, saying that she is a Deaconess and that she had taken the typist to her pastor for confession of sin and forgiveness,” the complainant narrated.

    In her defense, Veronica, who did not deny the allegation, said her husband was the cause of the incident, saying that she had warned her husband not to allow the typist come to their house.

    Veronica, however, pleaded the court not to dissolve the marriage which was blessed with seven children, saying she had suffered enough about the issue.

    In his judgment, Chief Mukaila Balogun, the president of the court, dissolved the marriage and ordered the complainant to pay N17,000 to the defendant for her to pack her load.

    Balogun further directed that the defendant should take custody of the seventh child while the husband should pay her N5000 monthly allowance or the upkeep of the child.

  • Wife pours boiling water on hubby’s manhood in Ibadan

    Adeyinka Adelakun, a middle aged public school teacher in Ibadan, on Thursday narrated how his wife, kafayat, poured boiling water on his manhood which seriously injured him.

    Adelakun had approached an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court at Agodi in Ibadan seeking the dissolution of his three-year-old marriage to his wife on grounds of threat to life and constant fighting.

    He also prayed the court to allow him have in his custody the two-year –old child of the marriage so that he could effectively take care of the child.

    According to the plaintiff, kafayat is in the habit of fighting him and threatening him whenever they have domestic issues to resolve.

    “On Feb 27, 2016, she started her trouble as usual and I decided to call her mother on phone to caution her, but kafayat brought a kettle of hot water from the kitchen and poured it on my genitals and chest.

    “The pain was too much, I was rushed to hospital due to the severe injuries I sustained and I stayed in the hospital for months.

    “Even I cannot use my injured manhood for any sexual act till now because it has not healed and I decided to quit the marriage to avoid untimely death.

    “Am afraid of living with a woman that wanted to finish my manhood because she may do more harm if allow her in my life, “ he said.

    Adelakun presented pictures of his injured genitals as exhibits to prove his case and the court admitted the pictures.

    In her defense, Kafayat admitted the allegation, but said that it was not intentional and that the hot water mistakenly poured on her husband when he wanted to beat her.

    The defendant told the court that she was arrested because of the incident and the matter was resolved later.

    Kafayat did not agree with the dissolution, saying she still loved her husband in spite of ill-treatment and lack of care from the plaintiff.

    The Court President, Chief Mukaila Balogun, and two assessors, Aare Samotu and Ganiyu Alao, in their unanimous decision, dissolved the marriage.

    Balogun said the opinion of the court was that there was no more love between the couple and the parties should go their separate ways to avoid more trouble.

    The court further directed that the only child of the union should be in the custody of her mother and ordered the plaintiff to pay N4, 000 as monthly allowance for the upkeep of the child.

    “The plaintiff should also pay N12, 000 and N5, 000 to the defendant to rent a new apartment and to pack her belongings respectively, “the court ruled.