Help! My wife has turned me to a punching bag

A 55-year-old man, Semiu Amao, has accused his wife, Silifat Amao, of constantly assaulting him in the past eight years, urging the police to quickly come to his aid.
The businessman, who lives at Daramola Close, Oke-Olu, Iponri, Lagos, said his wife had, on several occasions, assaulted him over misunderstandings between them.
According to him, his wife had become a terror in their matrimonial home.
Recounting his ordeal in the hands of his wife of 18 years, Amao said she suddenly became violent and “unreasonably demanding.”
He disclosed that his wife became unruly and often flared up at the slightest provocation, making life difficult for him as she had refused to carry out basic household chores such as cooking, washing and had also denied him sex since 2015.
“Apart from the fact that he usually beats me, she has refused to cook for me and wash my clothes and since 2015, she hasn’t allowed me to have sex with her. She went for family planning without my consent and I do not know the reason she took the decision to go for family planning,” he said.
Amao noted that when the family rows were becoming too frequent, he reported Selifat to her own mother so that the former could counsel and make her behave better, but the situation remained.
He also disclosed that when Silifat’s aggressiveness took another dimension and she became unbearable, he reported her at the Iponri Police Station, where his wife was made to sign an undertaking to stop fomenting trouble, beating him and threatening anyone’s life.
Amao revealed that this move by him did not in any way deter Silifat, as she became more violent.
According to Amao, barely a month after an agreement was reached at the Iponri Police Station to stop the violence at home, he suffered another attack and beating from his wife.
“One fateful day, my wife accosted me and blocked my path with an Okada along Jubril Mratins, Iponri and started fighting me as usual. I tried to escape, and ran to our house to have a change of clothing because she had torn the clothes I was wearing. She still came to meet me at home and started beating me with an iron rod. His brother, Nurudeen Saka, later called me on the phone to threaten me, saying he would deal with me,” he said.
Amao told our correspondent that due to the frequent quarrels and fights between him and his wife, he was compelled to take a second wife in 2016, but this worsened the situation as Salifat and her family had continued to threaten him and make life unbearable for him.
He added that he was now seeking a dissolution of his 18-year-old marriage to Selifat, who had borne him two children, aged 12 and three years, respectively.
A resident of the area, Bolatito Samuel, confirmed to our correspondent that Amao usually suffered beatings in the hands of his wife.
“That woman is a terror in this house and a problem to the man. On several occasions, she had chased the man out of the house, while the children would be begging. No resident likes to intervene in their case again. The man needs to look elsewhere for another woman. On several occasions, they have reported their case at the police station, but the woman will not stop fomenting trouble in the house,” Samuel said.
All efforts to speak with Mrs. Silifat Amao were not successful as she was not at home when our correspondent visited the family’s
residence.
The Coordinator of Rural and Urban Initiatives, Comrade Ismail Agbodemu, said, “Amao’s case has again been reported at the police division. She has been invited, but yet she did not show up. Further investigation will be commenced into the case to know whether to proceed to court over the matter.”
The Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Chike Oti, said his office had not been briefed.