A 73-year-old retired soldier, Kalid Ayanlaki, who dragged his wife, Funke, before an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, Lagos State has been granted divorce on grounds of lack of love after seven years of marriage.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), delivering judgment, the court president, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, held that since the petitioner insisted on divorce after several interventions, the court was left with no option other than to grant his wish.
“The court hereby pronounces the marriage between Mr Kalid Ayanlaki and Mrs Funke Ayanlaki dissolved today.
“Both of you henceforth cease to be husband and wife.
“Both of you should go your separate ways. The court wishes both of you well in your future endeavours,” the court president stated.
Koledoye ordered Kalid to pay the sum of N150,000 as severance fee to his wife and another N200,000 to get a new accommodation.
Kalid had earlier sought the dissolution of his seven-year-old marriage, claiming he no longer loved his wife.
“The love I once had for my wife is no more. I am tired of her and I want her out of my life and house.
“Please, terminate our marriage so that we can go our separate ways,” the petitioner said.
However, the 52-year-old fashion designer, Funke Ayanlaki, challenged her husband to produce the corpse of their only child before she agrees to divorce.
“I will not agree to divorce unless he produces our child’s corpse.
“He took the corpse of the only child I had for him and vanished into thin air. I do not know what he did with it.
“I want the corpse back. That is the only condition by which I will agree that our marriage be dissolved.
“I have suffered and experienced many strange sicknesses in our marriage. I also lost my child mysteriously. He can’t just use and dump me.”
The respondent accused her husband of deceiving her into marrying him.
“My husband has sugar-coated tongue. He promised me the whole world when he was wooing me.
“But he never fulfilled any of his promises after I moved in with him. He instead made life miserable for me.
Funke begged the court not to grant her husband’s wish of the dissolution of their marriage, claiming she still loves him.
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