‘My wife encourages our children to steal’
A 56-year-old driver, Olusegun Agogo, has asked an Igando Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his 19-year-old marriage on the grounds that his wife encourages their children to steal.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Olusegun stated that his wife, Olufumilayo, with whom he had two female children, fought him whenever he tried to discipline them for stealing.
“My daughters aged 18 and 14 years old respectively, have penchant for stealing and my wife does not allow me to beat or punish them.
“There was a day I came home and met Odua People Congress (OPC) members disciplining my daughters. When I asked for their offences, I was told they stole N50,000 from a woman four houses away from ours and that the money was found on them.
“When they came in, I wanted to beat them but my wife restrained me.
“My first daughter once stole my phone when I was charging it, when I asked my wife and daughters for the phone, they claimed that they did not take it, I, therefore, assumed that somebody outside the family must have stolen it.
“Some days later, I heard the ringing tone of my missing phone coming from my daughter’s room. When I rushed there, behold she was receiving a call with it. She had destroyed my SIM card.
“Stealing is in my daughters’ blood. They duplicated my room key without my knowledge and stole my N100,000 which I collected from a thrift collector.
“On another occasion, they stole N20,000, from me and I stopped bringing money home, because most times, I come back home to meet my room ransacked.
“Last month, they stole my two phones from my room while I was sleeping and up till now, I have not recovered them.
“I can no longer walk freely on the street because of my daughters’ misbehaviour,’’ he said.
The petitioner said his wife once accused him of stealing N40,000 from her.
“My wife once accused me of stealing her N40,000. She hit me with a big plank, I dodged it from hitting my head but I sustained injury on my wrist.
“When her daughters noticed that the missing money belonged to their mother, they returned it.”
Olusegun pleaded with the court to dissolve their marriage because he was no longer in love with his wife whose attitude has caused great damage to their children.
Olufunmilayo stated that her husband did not care for her and their children and that she had been responsible for their feeding and school fees.
“Anytime I asked him for the children’s school fees, he would tell them to go and learn a trade.
“I singlehandedly paid our first daughter’s WAEC fee, he refused to contribute to it,” she said.
She however made a plea to the court not to dissolve their marriage because she was still in love with her husband.
“Please, help me beg my husband not to divorce me. I will make amend in correcting the children over any wrong doing,” she said.
The court president, Mr Adegboyega Omilola adjourned the case till June 6, for further hearing.
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