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An Igando Customary
Court in Lagos has dissolved a 13-year-old marriage between Mr. Rasak Balogun
and a businesswoman, Mrs Oluwabunmi Balogun, over sex starvation.
THE
PETITIONER
Mr. Abiodun Balogun, 51, an accountant, had
filed a suit seeking the dissolution of his 13-year-old marriage to Oluwabunmi
for sex starvation. Forty-year-old Mrs Balogun had raised an allegation that
her estranged husband attempted to rape their teenage housekeeper.
She equally notified
the court, while responding to a divorce suit filed by her husband, Mr Rasak
Balogun, that he was a flirt. However, the husband said: “Whenever we had
misunderstanding, my wife would deny me sex and food; and for the past six
months now, she had not allowed me to make love to her.
“My
wife was always accusing me of dating any woman she saw in my car. She once
trailed me to a place, stopped my car, dragged out the woman inside my car and
gave her the beating of her life. “She also beat up one of our tenants, whom
she accused of having an affair with me. Because of her behaviour, I ordered her
to leave my house and when she refused, I packed out from the house.”
Abiodun, therefore,
urged the court to dissolve his marriage, saying that he was sick and tired of
the marriage. The accountant told the court that the love he once had for
Olubunmi had faded.
WIFE’S
STATEMENT
The businesswoman-wife
said: “He attempted to rape my teenage housekeeper when I went for a vigil. My
12-year-old housekeeper, half-naked, rushed to meet me in the church at about
12 midnight, and told me that my husband wanted to rape her.
“She
stayed with me throughout the vigil. The following morning, I took the girl to
my husband’s room to repeat what she told me during the vigil. “The housekeeper
said the petitioner came into her room, snatched her wrapper and attempted to
rape her, but that she escaped and he sent her packing after the confrontation.
I also caught him and my friend’s younger sister coming out of a hotel.”
The mother of three
also alleged that Abiodun was dating a single mother in their street. She said
her husband packed out of the house the same day the other woman packed out of
hers. She said: “My husband packed out of
the house he built to an unknown destination, abandoning me and our children.
He moved out with a lady he was dating in our street to rent an apartment
elsewhere. “Despite his infidelity, I still love him,” she added.
JUDGMENT
In
his judgment, the court’s President, Mr. Adegboyega Omilola, said the
petitioner was adamant despite mediations from the court and family. Omilola
ruled: “Since the petitioner insisted on
divorce after several interventions, the court has no choice than to dissolve
the union in spite of the fact that the wife still claims she loves her
husband. “The court pronounces the marriage between Abiodun Balogun and
Oluwabunmi Balogun dissolved today. Both parties, henceforth, cease to be
husband and wife. “Both are free to go their separate ways without any
hinderances and molestation.”
Source: Vanguardng
Source: Vanguardng
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