A 42-year-old housewife, Mrs. Omolabake
Bashorun, on Tuesday, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that she
caught her husband inside the bedroom of their 60-year-old female
neighbour.
Omolabake, a mother of two, disclosed
this while begging the court to dissolve her 18-year-old marriage with
her 43-year-old husband, Tunde Bashorun, a businessman.
The woman said that she does not want to die young and that she was no longer interested in the marriage.
She said, “Since the day I caught my husband inside our neighbour’s bedroom, he has been threatening to kill me.
“I caught my husband hiding behind the
door of our neighbour’s bedroom, when I went there to... pick my purse that
I forgot in the room earlier that day.
“Our neighbour, a 60-year-old woman and I
are very close; I enter her flat anytime of the day. On that fateful
day, I knocked at her door to pick my purse. I could not enter because
she had locked the door from behind; so she told me to come back, that
she was sleeping.
“I insisted because I needed my purse to
pay for what I just bought, so I forced myself inside the room and I
saw.....
my husband hiding behind her door, sweating.”
She added that since that day, her
husband’s behaviour changed; he had turned her into a punching bag and
always threatened to kill her.
“After beating me, he will pick any
machete, a pestle or a knife and threaten to kill me if I refuse to pack
out of his house. He said that he was tired of me and that he had found
a new love.
“My screaming always attracted our
neighbours, who usually rescue me. He also called my relatives to come
and take me away; that if they did not do so on time, he will kill me,’’
the estranged wife said.
She added that her husband no longer
slept on the same bed with her, adding that he preferred sleeping on the
floor or going to their neighbour’s room to sleep.
Omolabake added that her husband also
transferred the aggression to his children, maintaining that he was no
longer responsible for their upkeep.
“He stopped paying their school fees and
refused to buy them clothes; instead, he would go and collect used
clothes from his friends’ children and bring them home for his
children,’’ she said.
The respondent, Bashorun, did not deny
the allegation that his wife met him in their neighbour’s bedroom, but
said that he went there to collect something.
“My wife saw me in our neighbour’s room, but I only went there to collect something,’’ he said.
He submitted that he only beat Omolabake
whenever she erred, adding that she was fond of reporting him to his
friends and neighbours anytime they had a misunderstanding.
“My wife always reports me to third parties, which I detest so much that I usually beat her to make her change,’’ he said.
Bashorun said that he gave his children money for food, bought them new clothes and that he was still paying their school fees.
He appealed to the court not to dissolve the union, saying that he was still interested in the marriage.
The Court President, Mr. R.I Adeyeri, however, adjourned the case till October 21, 2013 for continuation of hearing.
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