After 11 years of marriage, an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court on Thursday, August 6, dissolved the union between Adebayo Oluwafemi, and his wife, Funmilayo.
The husband who initiated the divorce suit, accused the wife of being extravagant and troublesome.
Oluwafemi, 40, a resident of Omisanjana, along Igbo-Aso in Ado-Ekiti, added that his was wayward, a slanderer and a pathological liar. He also said she had severally threatened to kill him.
Oluwafemi told the court that he did not want to commit murder because his wife did not give him peace of mind at home; hence, his decision to call for the divorce.
The petitioner pleaded for the dissolution of the marriage saying he could not cope anymore and prayed for the custody of his children: 10-year-old Peace, a female and the one-and-a -half year old Samson; a male.
But the respondent, Funmilayo, 37, a resident of Omisanjana area in Ado-Ekiti, denied the allegations levelled against her.
She said that her husband had failed in his duty by not providing for their children, especially, their first child that gained admission into a secondary school.
She said that she was the one responsible for the welfare of their children, which she attributed as the major cause of their constant misunderstandings.
Funmilayo said that her husband changed the keys to the major entrances into their house when they had a misunderstanding and since then, she had been staying in her church.
She admitted that though her husband was always buying raw foodstuffs in the house, she said that it was hard for him to give her money for the other needs of his family.
She, however, did not want the marriage dissolved.
The President of the Court, Mrs Olayinka Akomolede, who observed that the marriage had broken down irretrievably; consequently dissolved the marriage.
Akomolede ruled that the custody of the children should be awarded to the respondent, and that Samson should be released to his father when he had attained seven years of age.
She also ordered that the petitioner must be responsible for the education of his children and must allow the respondent to remove her properties from his house.
She also ruled that the petitioner must secure a self-contained apartment for the respondent to house the children, and pay a year’s rent.
Akomolede added that the petitioner would be paying the sum of N10,000 as the monthly upkeep allowance of their children.
The court granted access to the petitioner to see his children whenever he wishes. (NAN)