An
Oyo state Customary Court on Thursday, dissolved an 11-year-old
marriage after a man revealed that his wife uses hawking of bitter
liquor to cover up her immorality.
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While speaking on Thursday at the Idi-Ogogo Customary Court, Agodi
in Ibadan, Oyo state, a man identified as Abiodun Olaifa from the Aremo
area, said that his wife uses hawking of bitter liquor, popularly called
`Agbo-Jedi’, to cover up her immorality.
The man's wife, Oluwaseyi had prayed the court to end her
11-year-old marriage with Olaifa on the grounds that the defendant beats
her regularly, burns her cloths and victimizes her.
She alleged that her husband was not a responsible man and was in
the habit of threatening her life, and prayed the court to quash the
marriage so that she could be free from the defendant’s embarrassment
and provocation.
Olaifa, while testifying in a divorce petition filed against him by
his wife, Oluwaseyi, also said that his wife has refused to heed his
warnings against the use of bleaching creams.
He said, “She receives midnight calls from her suspected
concubines and has no regard for me as her husband since she began
hawking Agbo-jedi, which I kicked against.
“She uses the opportunity of hawking Agbo-jedi to commit extra
marital affairs; she has been over exposed and cannot be controlled.
“I support the divorce suit and pray the court to grant her request so that she can have maximum freedom to do as she wishes.”
Chief Mukaila Balogun, who presided over the matter, however,
dissolved the marriage and ordered that only the first child should
remain with the defendant.
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