A Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has dissolved a four-year-old union on the grounds of wife battery.
A fashion designer, Taiwo Solademi, had approached the court seeking a separation from her husband, Abiodun Solademi, a printer, on the grounds of neglect and battery.
Taiwo in her suit prayed the court to dissolve their union and grant her custody of their children.
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“My husband is not a boxer, but he developed the skill shortly after we got married.
“Rather than go to the stadium to practise, he stayed back home and turned me to his punching bag.
“Hardly would a day pass without him punching me.
“He would beat me and not leave me until I bleed from the wound he had inflicted on me.
“There was a day he beat me so much that I fainted. I was unconscious for days in the hospital. It took prayers and God’s grace to bring me back, “Taiwo stated.
“I can’t recall when last he left feeding allowance. I single handedly feed the home, clothe the children and pay their school fees.
“I’ve endured his maltreatment enough. My lord, my mind is made up. I’m leaving him, “she concluded.
Abiodun did not agree to his wife’s prayer of divorce, giving the welfare of the children as his major reason.
“I still love my wife and I have begged her, but she has refused to go back on her decision.
“It is true that I beat her. I apologised to her, my family members also did but she ignored our pleas.
“It’s not true that I neglected her and our children; I did all in my power to make them comfortable.
“She moved out of the home of recent and withdrew the children from school. She moved to her sister’s place at Ilorin,” the defendant said.
Having granted both parties audience, the court president, Chief Ademola Odunade, observed that the mind of the plaintiff was made up.
Odunade, therefore, ordered their marriage dissolved and granted the plaintiff custody of the children.
The defendant was ordered to give the children N8,000 monthly as feeding allowance and take up responsibility of their education and health care.