She’s too stubborn, joined group without my consent
A house wife, Adijat Oyebola, has dragged her estranged husband, Sulaimon Oyebola, before a Customary Court sitting in Ake, Abeokuta, Ogun State, for allegedly using a hot pressing iron to inflict injury on her right breast.
Adijat, who brought her husband before the court in a suit numbered C/264/2018, pulled off her brassiere to show the court the injury allegedly inflicted on her breast by Sulaimon during a minor disagreement.
The mother of three said that her husband of 19 years was fond of beating her at the slightest provocation, especially whenever she asked him for feeding allowance.
She added that he never bothered to take care of her and the children.
According to her, trouble started in their home when her husband accused her of infidelity simply because she’s a member of the Oodua Peoples Congress and in the process fought with her to the extent of attacking her with a hot pressing iron.
Adijat, however, said that she had reported the case to her husband’s family members and her own, too, to settle the matter, but none of her efforts yielded anything meaningful before she was forced to leave her matrimonial home.
The Pepper dealer, who said that she left her husband seven years ago and got married to another man, told the court that all she needed was for her ex-hubby to be responsible for the school fees and upkeep of the children, a duty she claimed she had been doing since they parted in 2012.
She, therefore, sought to divorce her husband, Sulaimon, on the grounds of no care for their children, frequent fighting, lack of care, trouble making, provocation and no rest of mind.
She also urged the court to order her husband to start paying the school fees and upkeep of the children.
She said, “My husband is too troublesome. He beat me mercilessly the day he heard that I’m a member of the OPC to the extent of using pressing iron on my breast. See the mark. I don’t want to have anything to do with him again because I have married another man. I just want the court to ask him to be paying my children’s school fees and feeding money.
“I want to divorce him and I want this court to restrain him from further coming to my house or place of work to foment trouble.”
In his defense, her husband, Oyebola, denied attacking and scalding her breast with hot pressing iron, adding that he became angry as a Muslim the day he discovered that Adijat had many incisions on her body due to her membership of the OPC.
Oyebola, who told the court that he did Islamic marriage(Nikkai) with his wife of 19 years before she moved out of his house seven years ago, wondered why his wife should have such incisions and why she became a member of the OPC without his consent.
He, therefore, pleaded with the court to grant him the custody of his three children: Walia Oyebola,17; Waris Oyebola, 14; and Rokeebat Oyebola,10 for proper care.
“My wife is stubborn. She went to join OPC without informing me; it was later that I saw many incisions on her body and when I asked her, she turned it into a fight with me and one day she just packed her things out of my house. I just want the court to ask her to give me my children to enable me to take care of them myself,” he
said.
Delivering her judgement, the President of the Court, Mrs. O. O. Sam-Obaleye, held that the wife should have the custody of the children while the husband should be responsible for their school fees and upkeep.
