An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court on Thursday dissolved a 10-year-old marriage between Rabiu Tosin and her husband, Ayodeji, over frequent beatings and public disgrace.
The court’s president, Mrs Olayinka Akomolede, held that the marriage had broken down irretrievably and she, consequently, dissolved the marriage.
Akomolede awarded the custody of the two children of the union to the petitioner, Rabiu, while the respondent would be responsible for their education.
She ordered the respondent to be paying N3,000 monthly to the petitioner as each of the children’s feeding allowance.
Akomolede granted the respondent the permission to see his children at anytime.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the parties had earlier given their evidence on Feb. 26 and the court reserved judgment until April 4.
Rabiu, 33, a resident of No. 8, Onisinla /Bank road, Ado-Ekiti, had told the court that her husband was fond of beating her.
She added that each time they fought; he used to throw her belongings out from their house.
She said that he had been beating her since she married him, saying that she thought he would change from his bad attitude.
Rabiu said that there was a time she went to the market, and before she returned; he had packed her belongings out of the house.
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She added that when she begged him to bring out her remaining property; he brought out a machine pipe and started beating her and seized her phone.
Rabiu said she called her grandmother to intervene but he refused to listen to her.
The mother of two said they started fighting again on that day and he ordered her grandmother out of the house.
According to her, the cause of their fights was majorly about money, saying he had always refused to give feeding allowance to her and the children.
She added that anytime she refused him sexual advances, he would not give her money to cook for the family.
Rabiu urged the court to grant her the custody of the children saying that they had been staying with her mother –in –law since she left the house.
The respondent, Ayodeji, 37, a resident of No. 42, Omisanjana, Ado-Ekiti, denied beating his wife constantly but admitted that he had beaten her once.
He said that his wife was temperamental, and was fond of fighting other tenants that included their previous landlords.
He said that this had made them too, to frequently change their accommodations.
He alleged that his wife was adulterous; saying that there was a day a woman reported her at the palace that she was dating her husband.
Ayodeji denied disgracing his wife, saying she was fond of abusing, insulting and disgracing him.
He said if they had a little disagreement, she would leave the house.
The respondent said that he was in support of the dissolution and prayed that he should be granted the custody of the children.
NAN
