A Customary Court sitting in Ikorodu, Lagos
State, has dissolved a 10-year-old marriage because the wife’s perpetual
stealing habit, infidelity and stubbornness.
The petitioner, Olawale Akanji, a carpenter, had dragged his wife, Afusat,
to the court, praying to be separated from the woman as she has, over
the years, caused his series of embarrassment with her criminal
activities and serial adultery, arguing that efforst to stop his
33-year-old wife from her bad habits have been fruitless.
The
34-year-old Akanji further said he could no longer continue to live
with his hairdresser wife due to her unruly behavior and thieving
character.
In the application filed at the court
in October 2014, the Igbo, Ikorodfu based Akanji, urged the court to
grant the divorce to save his sanity, stating that he decided on the
action when he found out that his wife allegedly pregnant for another
man as well as being in the habit of stealing his money.
But Afusat denied the allegations leveled against her in her evidence:
“I
don’t steal my husband’s money, even though he is very tight fisted. He
gives us N300 feeding allowance daily and I will be the one to feed his
old-aged mother and father that lived with us. I usually fetch water
for sale, that’s where I get money to feed the family.
He
was always thinking that I am stealing his money or I have been
engaging in extra- marital affairs, please help me save my marriage.”
But the President of the Court, Olu Adebiyi,
noted that there was no more love in the union and that the couple
could not stay together amicably despite moves made by the court to
reconcile them. He therefore dissolved the marriage and Akanji to
register the pregnant Afusat in an ante natal clinic and pay
accommodation fees to the her since the paternity of the pregnancy
cannot be established now until a DNA test proves its ownership after
delivery.
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