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A fashion designer, Mrs Omotolani Alele,
on Wednesday told an Idi-Ogungun
Customary Court, Agodi, Ibadan that her
husband beat her each time she refused
to worship his family idol.
Omotolani, who lives at Ojoo area of
Ibadan, had approached the court for
dissolution of her five-year-old marriage
on grounds of brutality and threat to her
life by her husband, Anthony.
The hearing in the case began on
February 1 and was adjourned till
February 8 for the defendant to produce
their marriage certificate.
The plaintiff had refuted the claim of her
husband that they were legally married.
However, at the resumed hearing of the
case today, the husband failed to produce
the marriage certificate.
In her testimony before the court,
Omotolani had said that the union,
blessed with a three-year-old child, had
been a regrettable one due to daily ill
treatment from Anthony.
She said, “My husband asked me to join
him to worship his family idol several
times but l refused, and this made him to
beat me always.
“His parents did not want him to marry
me but we came together since he
claimed to love me but he changed.
“He even took the only child of the union
from me and cannot really say where he
kept my child.
“I pray the court to grant my request for
divorce; I am not ready to worship any
idol and l don’t want die young due to
his constant beating.”
The defendant did not object to the
petition.
The Court President, Mukaila Balogun,
consequently upheld the request of the
petitioner and dissolved the union.
He held that the evidence before the
court proved that both parties were not
ready for amicable resolution of their
conflict.
He gave the custody of the child to the
plaintiff and directed the defendant to
pay N4,000 monthly for the upkeep of the
child.
