NAN – An Agege Customary Court, Lagos on Monday dissolved a 4-year-old marriage between Sowemimo Nimotalahi and her husband, Olalekan ,over threat to life.
The President of the court, Mr Philip Williams, in a judgment, granted dissolution of the union and warned parties to refrain from harassing and molesting each other.
Williams ordered Olalekan to pay N5, 000 monthly to Sowemimo for the upkeep of their 3-year-old child.
He held that both of them would, however be responsible for the medical expenses of the child.
The judge also ordered that the boy should remain in the custody of the mother as agreed by both parties.
Sowemimo, 35, had asked the court to dissolve her marriage with Olalekan, because he was “very abusive, violent, drunk and always threaten her life’’.
The petitioner told the court that they had been married since 2012 and the union was blessed with a child.
She said she was fed up with the union and urged the court to dissolve the marriage based on what she called “irreconcilable differences.’’
“My husband is a drunk; he beats me up whenever he gets drunk and also has extramarital affairs with different women.
“He has been very violent, aggressive and abusive and several attempts have been made to resolve these issues but to no avail,”
Olalekan in his testimony denied the allegations by the woman but told the court that he was no longer interested in the marriage.
Olalekan alleged that he had caught her at different hotels with different men.
