Divorce: Drama In Court As Husband & Wife Narrate How They Lived As A Couple

A 40-year old Information Technologist, Mr Samuel Bankole on
Tuesday told an Igando Customary court in Lagos that his father-in-law was
responsible for his leaving his matrimonial home.

Bankole, who was responding to a divorce suit filed by his
wife, Iyabo, said his father in-law forced him out because he was unable to pay
the house rent.

“My wife always pay the rent because I am not buoyant enough
but the last rent was paid by my father-in-law who had been threatening me to
vacate the house or commit suicide.

“On that fateful day, he came with a thug, beat me and threw
my belongings out.

“He also arrested me; I passed a night in the cell before my
father came to bail me,” he said.

The respondent said that his wife with whom he had three
children was having extra marital affair.

“My wife cheats on me, I read her chat on her phone and I
discovered she was having an affair with a man.

“I confronted her and showed her their conversation but she
could not give me a satisfactory answer,” he said.

Bankole also claimed that his wife always curse him, saying
he always heard her at mid-night, swearing that it would not be well with him.

He begged the court not to grant his wife’s wish as he was
still in love with her.

The petitioner, Mrs Iyabo Bankole, 32, a trader had sought
for the dissolution of her five-year-old marriage over lack of care and threat
to her life.

She said that her husband was an irresponsible husband and
father.

“My husband is working but he always tell me he does not
have money, I have been the one paying the house rent since the inception of
our marriage and also pay the children’s school fees.

“When the rent of the two-bedroom flat I first rented was
about to due, my husband disappeared

from the house with all his belongings to an unknown
destination and I was pregnant then.

“I don’t have money so I have to sell my late mother’s
property to pay for my antenatal and to feed myself.

“I was in the hospital for six days because I could not pay,
I was release after my father came to pay the bill and I stayed with my father
for nine months before he rented another flat for me.

“After my father rented the flat, my husband came back to
the house,” she said.

Iyabo also told the court that her husband threatened to
kill her.

He said that her husband once tied her nose and mouth with
cloth, adding that it took the intervention of neigbours to save her.

“There was a day his girl friends came to my house around
11:00 pm to beat me up.

“After I recovered from the beating, I came out to take air
when I saw those girls with my husband outside the gate chatting and drinking.

My husband also beats me whenever he sees me talking with male
customers or whenever he reads my chat with a male friend on phone; all the
scars on my body was as result of his constant beating.

The petitioner pleaded with the court to dissolve the
marriage, saying her life was at risk and wanted to live and cater for her children.

The court president, Mr Adegboyega Omilola adjourned the
case till November 4 for further hearing.

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