My wife is a prostitute, husband tells court
Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Thursday dissolved a 28-year-old marriage between one Omotayo, a mother of seven, and her husband, Akanbi Ojo, over battery and threat to life. Omotayo, the complainant, had told the court that her husband was “hurting her body and soul” through ceaseless battery. “For 28 years now, I have not known peace in my union with Akanbi because he derives pleasure in beating me. “Even when I stopped staying with him, he still comes around to my apartment to unleash mayhem on me. “Worst still, the seven children from the marriage and I, are wallowing in abject penury due to the fact that he does not fend for us. “I am fed up with him; please terminate our union,” Omotayo told the court. However, Akanbi refuted the allegation of not fending for his family and prayed the court to invite the children for clarification as to whether or not, he was alive to his responsibility. He did not deny the accusation of battery, but in turn described his estran...