A trader, Fatimo Nurudeen, on Friday pleaded with an Agege
Customary Court in Lagos State to dissolve her 12-year-old marriage for alleged
frequent beating and fetish practice by her husband.
Fatimo, 31, who lives at 32, Akiode St., Ibafo, Ogun, told
the court that her husband beats her frequently.
“I don’t think my husband is normal because he beats me as
if we are in a boxing competition.
“Also, he brought home a substance suspected to be fetish in
nature and put it in our room. I was afraid of it, and my children and myself
had to run for our dear lives from our matrimonial home.
“My husband drinks to stupor and smokes Indian hemp, after
which he usually loses self control.
“I do not love him anymore, I want a dissolution of our
marriage ,” the mother of two children; ages seven years and ten years said.
Fatimo also told the court that she had been the one
responsible for the upkeep of her children before and after she had packed out
of her husband’s house three years’ ago.
“I want the custody of my children but I want him to be
responsible for their monthly upkeep,” she said.
The husband, Ayomide Yakubu, 35, a welder by occupation,
failed to appear in court.
The President, Mr Phillips Williams, told the woman to
maintain the peace and ordered the court registrar to serve Yakubu another
court summons.
Williams adjourned the case to June 1 for further
hearing.
(NAN)
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