A 36-year-old wife seeking divource has told an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court that her husband, Friday Nwafor had an affair with a mad woman.
Amaka, a resident of Oke-Bola in Ado-Ekiti, said the lady confessed to her after she got healed of her ailment that she was sleeping with her husband.
The mother of four also told the court during its proceedings that her husband usually accused her of returning from her man friend’s house and that he would kill her.
Amaka urged the court to dissolve her 14-yeard-old marriage, adding that her husband had threatened her life severally and promises to hire thugs for N5,000 to kill her.
After the husband’s consent to the divource, the President of the Court, Olayinka Akomolede dissolved the marriage on the grounds of constant fighting and beating, public disgrace, threats to life, and lack of regard for the wife’s family by the respondent.
Akomolede, in her judgment, also observed that the marriage had broken down irretrievably. She ruled that the custody of the four children produced by the union should be awarded to the petitioner. She also ruled that the respondent should be paying N2,000 as the monthly feeding allowance on each of the children. The court president granted access to the respondent to see his children.
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