‘She sends thugs to beat me’

• My wife always sends thugs to lay ambush and beat me anytime we fight at home. I’m afraid they might kill me one of these days —Husband

• You don’t divorce a pregnant woman because you do not know what will happen to the baby. The court will continue with the hearing of the case after the delivery of the baby —Court

A trader, Benjamin Orjika, has dragged his pregnant wife to an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, Lagos State, accusing her of threatening his life. Forty-five-year-old Benjamin, who is seeking the dissolution of his 14-year-old marriage, told the court that his wife, Patience, wanted to kill him by sending thugs to beat him. “My wife always sends thugs to lay ambush and beat me anytime we fight at home. “I’m afraid they might kill me one of these days,” he alleged. The petitioner described his wife as a troublesome woman, who always made his life miserable by fighting and raining curses on him. “My wife is a troublemaker; she doesn’t have respect for me and is fond of slapping me anytime we have a misunderstanding. “She doesn’t regard me as her husband and he loves commanding me as if I am her son or younger brother,” Orjika said. Orjika, however, begged the court to dissolve their marriage, adding that he was no longer in love with his wife. The respondent, 40-year-old Patience, also a trader, consented to the dissolution of the marriage, saying she was also fed up with the marriage. “In 2007, I came to this court asking for the dissolution of our marriage, but the court called our family members and they settled our differences. “But since then, our marriage has not worked out well. It’s been hell on earth as my husband made our home uncomfortable for me,” she said. Patience, a mother of two, denied sending thugs to beat her husband, saying she could not do such a thing. The court president, Mr R.I. Adeyeri, told the petitioner to wait for his wife to put to bed before continuing hearing on the case. “You don’t divorce a pregnant woman because you do not know what will happen to the baby. “The court will continue with the hearing of the case after the delivery of the baby,” he said. Adeyeri, however, urged the couple to maintain peace

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‘My wife is having affairs with many men’

• She detests her step children, she does not give them food and she once poured hot water on my first son and also beat my second son to stupor-Husband —Wife

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos has dissolved a six-year marriage over heavy drinking habit and adultery. The President of the court, Mr Rasak Adeyeri, said all efforts to reconcile Samuel Ajibode, a businessman, and his wife, Rebecca, had proved futile. He said the court had no option than to dissolve the union for them to go their separate ways.

“Both parties are no longer husband and wife, they are free to go their separate ways,” Adeyeri ruled. The petitioner, Samuel Ajibode (53), had filed a suit seeking the dissolution of the marriage over the wife’s infidelity and excessive alcoholic consumption. He told the court that his wife was promiscuous and in the habit of cheating him. “My wife is having affair with many men, I saw her enter into a house with a man hugging and kissing. 

“But, she is now accusing and fighting my first son for telling me that she is dating the man,” he stated. Ajibode described Rebecca as a drunkard, saying she often gave alcohol to the son to drink and both would start misbehaving after. He accused Rebecca of always maltreating her stepchildren. “Rebecca detests her step children, she does not give them food and she once poured hot water on my first son and also beat my second son to stupor.” He said Rebecca was a troublesome woman and that due to this, “I had to leave the house for her and moved to my brother’s house”. The petitioner said Rebecca also colluded with his tenant, a herbalist, to sell his house. “That day, I saw three people in my compound inspecting the environment. I accosted them and asked them what they were doing in my compound

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