A 75-year-old man, Fashola
Fakorede, yesterday urged an Igando Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve his
marriage to his wife, Funke, 49, for allegedly beating him.
Fakorede told the court that his
wife had turned him into a punching bag and also inflicted injuries on him.
He said: “My wife wants to kill
me, she beats me every day, I don’t want to die now, save my life.
“My wife always beat me if I
asked for food or anything. She has turned it to a routine. All the scars on my
body is as a result of her battery on me.”
Fakorede said his wife no longer
takes care of him, adding: “She goes out and returns home at will without
seeking my permission.
“She can go out for days and if
I queried her, she would hit me with any dangerous weapon she could lay her
hand on at that moment.
“And my daughter is also
following her footstep. She brings home different men and my wife will not
query her. So, I sent her away from my house.”
He urged the court to dissolve
the union, saying he was no longer in love with her and was tired of the
regular battery, which had led to his ill-health.
“I am tired of the constant
beating, I am afraid this woman will kill me one day. I am not ready to die
now,” he pleaded.
Funke, a trader, denied the
allegations, saying that she did not beat her husband and always took good care
of him and respected him.
The mother of three, however,
accused her husband of denying his children the right to go to school.
She said: “My husband is unable
to send any of his three children to secondary school. My husband is not
responsible.
“None of our children went to
secondary school, all of them stopped schooling at primary school.”
She said her husband had
disowned his daughter, and urged the court not to grant his wish as she still
loved him.
“I have no where to go as no man
will want to marry me at my age,” she said.
The court president, Mr R. I.
Adeyeri, adjourned the case to November 25 for further hearing.
Source: Vanguard
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