Husband stabs wife for refusing him sex
by SUNDAY MICHAEL
A mother of four has accused her
husband of inflicting injuries
on her buttocks with a knife for refusing him sex
Risikat (petitioner) told the Alakuko Grade ‘B’ Customary Court that her husband, Rilwan Adisa (respondent), whose libido she described as high stabbed her for refusing to agree to another round after four rounds of sex.
The embittered woman revealed this during a chamber discussion. The court had invited Risikat and her husband to the chamber for possible reconciliation after Adisa said he still loved her.
But Risikat insisted that the marriage should be dissolved citing cruelty and incompatibility as reasons.
The court while giving ruling on the case said the woman showed it the scars of the injuries as evidence during the discussion.
The petitioner told the court that the marriage had broken up since it lacked love and care.
Risikat requested the court to grant her custody of the children, saying her husband would be the wrong person to have the children.
Risikat said he neither provides nor shows concern over the children’s needs and education.
"He left the care and welfare of the children to me completely. He does not know how we feed. He only remembers I am in the house whenever he wants to satisfy his libido. I pay school fees, buy books and i am responsible for other expenses," she said.
The woman said after she left the matrimonial home, her husband came over to her place and "took two of our children to Abeokuta, Ogun State to live with his aged mother. I learnt that the children are not registered in school, they were forced to learn blacksmith. There I learnt their master often torture them with iron put in fire."
Responding, Adisa referred to all that his wife had said as untrue. Though he admitted that indeed, he stabbed his wife on buttocks, he said it was not deliberate.
"That happened during our courtship. I had told her that day that I was going to work and would be returning late. But after few minutes, I returned home and discovered that my woman was nowhere to be found. I went back to work and returned home late that day. When I asked her where she had gone, she told me a younger man in the next house invited her to his bathroom to help him wash his back. What pained me was the smile of satisfaction on her face as she told me the nasty story. I actually wanted to stab the young man when we were fighting not my wife. I did not stab her deliberately. It was a mistake that I stabbed her twice," the respondent said.
Deliverying judgment, the court dissolved the marriage and granted the petitioner custody of the children.
The parties were warned to maintain peace, as the man was granted access to his children.
‘Produce your children or go to detention’
by SUNDAY MICHAELAn Alakuko Grade B Customary Court, Lagos has ordered a man to provide two children he allegedly took away without his wife’s consent within 12 hours or risk detention.
The court’s decision came after his wife, Shade, complained that her husband took the children away without her consent.
To make matter worse, the older of the children, a four-year-old, is in Ibadan, Oyo State an hour’s drive to the court, the court heard.
"I have given out the children to my sisters. The first child is in Ibadan and the other in Ijoko, Ogun State," Fatade Ademola said.
The woman said, "He took away the children without telling me. The children were playing at the front of the house when he quietly came to take them away. He did not tell anybody and no one saw him."
The petitioner added that she was in the house receiving treatment from injury sustained during a brawl with Ademola when he sneaked to take the children.
"I did not know that he was the one who took the children away. I had searched everywhere in the neighbourhood for them and no one saw him took them away. I got to know when he called later that the children were with him," the woman said.
Denying the allegation, Ademola said the petitioner’s mother was aware of how he took over the custody of the children.
"It was her mother (Shade’s mother) who gave the children to us. I was at the place with my mother and her mother said we should go away with the children. I did not steal the children," he said.
The respondent pleaded for leniency and asked the court to consider the distance.
Based on that, the court ordered him to make one the children available within the time.
Ademola was dragged to the court by his wife to seek dissolution of their marriage on grounds of incompatibility.
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