Tawakalitu Olayiwola, an Ibadan-based trader, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, asked a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her 20-year-old marriage on the grounds of theft and battery.
Olayiwola said that she decided to call it quits with her husband, Ganiu Olayiwola because her life was under threat due to constant high blood pressure.
She said that Ganiu had been battering her since 2003 at any slightest provocation.
“He even attempted pouring acid on me, and this is the reason why I became hypertensive.
“Ganiu had never been a responsible husband to me and father to our three children.
“My Lord, he usually gives the three children and me N1,000 as feeding allowance for six months.
“Due to his lack of care, I worked very hard to keep the home going, especially the children, but Ganiu was unhappy with me.’’
She said, “in fact, I started denying him sexual intercourse because I used to be too tired when he made advances to me at night.
“As a result, he labelled me an adulterer and unleashed mayhem on me.”
Olayiwola further explained how her husband stole her television, money, and mobile phone.
“I got Ganiu arrested by the police, and he was interrogated for stealing some of my property, but he denied it.
“However, I saw the same mobile phone he denied stealing with him when we got home from the police station.
“Ganiu has become a bad influence on our first child because the latter now displays his bad character,” she added.
The respondent, who did not oppose the suit, however, conceded that he truly beats his wife for constantly returning home late in the night.
“I was patient with Tawakalitu and warned her for three years, but she remained a disobedient wife.
“In fact, if she feels like discontinuing with me, Olayiwola is free,” Ganiu said.
In his judgment, the court’s President, Mrs S.M. Akintayo, held that there was no marriage to be dissolved in the first place between Olayiwola and Ganiu.
Akintayo explained there was no valid customary marriage between them based on the evidence available to the court.
She awarded custody of the three children in the union to the petitioner and ordered the respondent to take up the responsibility of feeding, schooling, and medical needs of the children.
The president also gave an order restraining Ganiu from harassing, intimidating, and interfering with the personal life of Olayiwola.
Domestic Staff Of Murdered CBN Staff, Wife Says, ‘I did it because of no salary increase’
The police in Ogun State have paraded the suspected killers of former Central Bank of Nigeria staff, Kehinde Fatinoye, his wife, Bukola Fatinoye, and their only son, Oreoluwa Fatinoye.
The suspects were paraded on Friday, February 10, 2023, at the Ogun State Police Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
During the parade, the Ogun State Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed that the driver of the deceased, Lekan Adekanbi, had confessed to having hired the other two men to help him in collecting money from his boss.
He said when they were with the victims, they had demanded a cash transfer and on receiving the alert, the suspects knew they could be tracked and decided to kill the couple.
According to Oyeyemi, the driver, who on January 2 escaped from police custody, was traced to his elder brother in Iseyin, Oyo State, but he had left the place before the arrival of the police.
The police teams, he explained, further intensified efforts and Adekanbi was apprehended in his hideout somewhere in Abeokuta on January 21.
During interrogation, Adekanbi, who had been driving the victims since 2018, “confessed to being the mastermind of the dastardly act.”
Oyeyemi said: “He invited the other two suspects Ahmed Odetola (aka Akamo) and Waheed Adeniyi (aka Koffi) to join him to rob the couple.
“He confessed further that he took the step because the couple refused to increase his salary, and that he approached them for a loan to buy a motorcycle, but they didn’t oblige him.”
He had told the police that he and his ‘hired killers’ waited for the couple to return from the New Year Crossover Service because he had access to the house, saying they “pounced on them immediately they entered the house.”
He added that the Alsatian dog in the house did not attack him because the dog was very familiar with him being the person who used to feed it.
Source: Daily Post
