A retired soldier, Gafaru Rodoye, has begged an Igando Cutomary Court to dissolve his marriage to his wife because of her violent nature.
He accused his wife, Idiat, with whom he has five children in their 20-year old marriage, of always raping him.
“My wife has turned my boxers to rags as she always tears them to rape me,” Rodoye told the court, adding that, his wife was in the habit of threatening his life through beating and that he was afraid she might kill him one day.
“I had to run away from my 16-flat building to rent an apartment elsewhere, just to avoid her frequent beatings, but she trailed me to my new apartment to fight me. I have reported her on several occasions to different police stations, but it did not yield any positive result,” he said.
Rodoye added that his wife poured hot water on the new wife that was brought for him from the village by his family and therefore, begged the court to end their 20-year-old marriage, adding that he was no longer in love as his life was in danger.
However, Mrs Idiat Rodoye, 44, a business woman, denied all the allegations, saying her husband was a womaniser.
“My husband runs after anything in skirt; he always sends me packing from the house whenever he wants to bring in another woman. He once sent me out with the children for three years. After sending me out, he had married six different women, but none stayed long with him. He will always come to beg me to come back,’’ she said.
The mother of five said she never raped her husband, that it was normal for husband and wife to make love, adding that it was her husband that was always beating her. She added that her husband removed the plasma television, air conditioner and disconnected the electricity supply from her flat, leaving her and the children in darkness.
She urged the court to grant her husband’s wish that she was also tired of the marriage and no longer in love.
The Court President, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, adjourned the case till April 5 for further hearing.
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