A Customary Court in Ikole-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has dissolved a seven-year-old marriage between a tailor, Iyabo Ogundele and her husband, Samson on grounds of battery and threat to life.
Delivering judgment, the court president, Mrs Yemisi Ojo, held that the court dissolved their marriage because of irreconcilable difference.
Ojo ordered both parties to go their separate ways and stay away from each other except for the purpose of discussing issues relating to the welfare of their two children.
She said that the discussion must be done peacefully and also in the presence of at least an elderly family member.
The court president stated that anyone who harasses or threatens the other in the course of the discussion would be criminally liable and punished in accordance with the law.
Ojo awarded custody of the two children to their mother until they are grown.
She ordered the father to provide N5,000 monthly for the upkeep of the children.
The money, according to her, should be paid to the court registry.
Earlier, the petitioner, Iyabo, 30, prayed the court for dissolution of their marriage because Samson beats her and has refused to pay her dowry.
Iyabo told the court that the respondent also smokes and that he was a drunk.
“Whenever he comes home drunk, he beats and threatens to kill me,” she said.
The petitioner prayed the court to order her husband to pay N10,000 monthly as upkeep allowance.
The respondent, Samson, a manual labourer in his evidence denied all the allegations of the petitioner.
He told the court that the petitioner left him because he caught her cheating.
Samson said he can only afford N2,000 as monthly allowance for their children’s upkeep.
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