Lagos - A 44-year-old businesswoman,
Adenike Rodoye, had lost her 20-year-old
marriage to her husband, Durojaiye, because
she was always tearing his boxers so as to
rape him.
Adenike Rodoye, had lost her 20-year-old
marriage to her husband, Durojaiye, because
she was always tearing his boxers so as to
rape him.
"My wife has turned my boxers to rags as she
always tears them to rape me," he told an
Igando Customary Court in Lagos State on
Thursday.
The president of the court, Mr Adegboyega
Omilola, after he had listened to the couple,
said that he was convinced that they could no
longer live together as husband and wife.
Omilola said that he had to dissolve the union
after the petitioner had insisted on the divorce.
The president added that several interventions
made by him to reconcile them felt on deaf
ears.
"This court has no choice than to dissolve the
union in spite of the fact that the wife still
claims she loves her husband.
"Both parties are no longer husband and wife,
as the marriage has broken down totally, they
are free to go their separate ways," Omilola
ruled
Earlier, the 56-year-old-petitioner, Durojaiye,
alleged that his wife was always threatening
his life through beating and that he was afraid
she might kill him one day.
"I had to run away from my 22-flat building to
rent an apartment elsewhere just to avoid her
frequent beatings, but she trailed me to my
new apartment to fight me.
"I had reported her in the past to different
police stations, but it did not yield any positive
result," he said.
Durojaiye, a pensioner, also alleged that his
wife poured hot water on the new wife his
family married for him from the village.
He begged the court to end their 20-year-old
marriage, saying he was no longer in love with
his wife whose actions had continued to
endanger his life.
"Please, separate us before my wife kills me,
my life is not safe with her, I am a pensioner, I
need to enjoy the fruits of my labour," he said.
However, the wife, Mrs Adenike Rodoye, 44, a
businesswoman, denied all the allegations
levelled against her by her husband.
She alleged that her husband was a
womaniser.
"My husband runs after anything in skirt; he
always sends me packing from the house
whenever he wants to bring in another woman.
"He once sent me out with the children for
three years.
"After sending me out, he had married six
different women, but none stayed long with
him. He was always begging me return to my
matrimonial home later," she said.
The mother of five said she never raped her
husband, adding that it was normal for
husband and wife to make love.
The respondent also denied ever beating-up
her husband but alleged that her husband was
always beating her.
Adenike said that her husband removed the
plasma television set, the air conditioner and
disconnected the electricity supply from her
flat, leaving her and the children in the dark.
She said that Durojaiye also fought with her
pastor on several occasions and even arrested
him with police.
Adenike said that the development led the
church’s leadership to ban her from
worshipping there.
