It was yet another sequence of drama at a grade A customary court, Ojo, Lagos when a married man was threatened by his wife to pack out of her house or face her wrath.
Mr. Bede Chuks Obiadazie has been ‘squatting’ with his wife for years; he has been living in a house built by his wife and contributing less or nothing to the construction and finishing of the four-bedroom bungalow before their marriage got into troubled waters two months ago.
According to Mrs. Chinwe Obiadazie, the embattled mother of one who dragged her husband to the court, “Chuks, is an unrepentant woman beater, loves booze more than he loves me and his only daughter. With the little money he gathers from his business, he would dash off to the nearest bar and lavish it there without any remorse, only to come back home drunk, smelly and bad tempered. Thus on any provocation, he would beat me to a pulp.”
Chinwe told the honorable court that she has been the bread winner for the better part of their 12-year old marriage. She feeds Chuks, houses him, takes care of their only child and does other things a responsible man should ordinarily do as a husband, leaving him with the sole duty of procreation.
Mrs. Obiadazie also claimed that adding pepper to her ‘glorious deep wound, her estranged husband adopted a lackadaisical attitude towards all the affairs of the house, topping it all, he beats her at a slightest provocation, especially when the issue of money arises, “the major cause of our problem has always been the issue of money but I have learnt to tolerate his laziness and taken it upon myself to guarantee the wellbeing of every member of the family. I buy him clothes, food and house him yet all I get in return is his constant beating. He beats me so mercilessly that at a time I almost lost my life,”
The obviously frustrated woman went further to tell the court that as a result of the constant beating from her estranged husband, her life is being threatened , adding to the many scares he had inflicted on her. She then asked for the dissolution of their absurd marriage.
Chinwe also pleaded with the court to warn her husband to pack his belongings out of her house before she vents her over-pouring anger on him and do something radical and destructive.
“Tell this man to leave my house because I want to sell it. I promise to give him part of the money when it is eventually sold. But if he refuses to heed to my warning, I would be tempted to do to him something he would forever live to regret. His plans were to kill me, so he would take over my property, but he would not succeed, because I will not let him.
When the remorseful looking husband was called upon by the court to defend himself, he simply told the court that he wasn’t willing to let his wife go because he still loves her so much.
“Although, I am innocent of all the allegations Chinwe leveled against me, I still love her dearly and can’t consent to the dissolution of the union. To an extent, I agree that I haven’t being the best of husband but nobody is perfect. I have a financial constraint and I can’t really take care of my responsibilities, but I believe the future would be better and I need my wife and child to be part of that future.
Panic, fears and worried griped residents of Lagos on Monday following a report that by the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) that a BRT bus loaded with passengers fell into the lagoon on the Third Mainland Bridge.
FRSC said this through its twitter handle, a news that sent many forced many Nigerians to dance barefooted.
Dismissing the rumour, the General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA)
Mr Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, has said the it was force that filtered from the pit of hell.
Source: Daily Post
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