A 75-year-old man, Fashola Fakorede, on Thursday
urged a Customary Court, in the Lagos suburb of
Igando, to dissolve his marriage to his wife, Funke,
49, for allegedly beating him.
Fakorede told the Nigerian customary court that his
wife had turned him into a punching bag and also
inflicted injuries over his body.
“My wife wants to kill me. She beats me every day. I
don’t want to die now, save my life. My wife always
beats me if I asked of food or anything. She has
turned it to a routine affair, all the scars on my body
are as a result of her battery on me,’’ he said.
Fakorede said his wife no longer takes care of him,
adding, “she goes out and returns home at will
without seeking my permission. She can go out for
days and if I queried her, she will hit me with any
dangerous weapon she can lay her hand on at that
moment.
“And my daughter is also taking her footstep, she
brings home different men and my wife will not
query her. So, I sent her away from my house,’’ he
said.
He urged the court to dissolve the union, saying that
he was no longer in love with her and was tired of the
regular battery, which had led to his ill-health.
“I am tired of the constant beating, I am afraid this
woman will kill me one day. I am not ready to die
now,’’ he pleaded.
Funke, a trader, denied the allegations, saying that
she did not beat her husband and has always taken
good care of him and respected him.
The mother of three, however, accused her husband
of denying the children the right to go to school.
“My husband is unable to send any of his three
children to secondary school. My husband is not
responsible. None of our children went to secondary
school, all of them stopped schooling at primary
school,” she said.
She said her husband had disowned his daughter,
and urged the court not to grant his wish as she still
loved him.
“I have no anywhere to go as no man will want to
marry me at my age,’’ ‘
The judge, Mr R. I. Adeyeri, adjourned the case till 25
November for further hearing.
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