A 54-year-old woman simply identified as Fatima has been accused of rendering her husband, Asimiyu Olayinka impotent.
Olayinka, a 67-year-old pensioner dragged his wife before the Alakuko Customary Court in Lagos state, begging for his 26-year-old marriage to be dissolved.
According to Olayinka, who accused his wife of adultery, his manhood stopped functioning after the last time he slept with his wife.
Narrating what happened he said: “On that day, my wife gave me a special treatment when I returned from work which led us to our bedroom. Surprisingly, during lovemaking, I had a terrible attack. I fell from the bed and excreted on my body. I thought I was going to die because it was like magun (charm) was placed on me. As I speak, it’s been three years since I slept with any woman. I am impotent.”
According to him, he had married her because his second wife was troublesome. She was a good wife and used to take care of his seven children he had from previous marriages.
He said trouble started in 2005, when he retired. She started misbehaving and stopped listening to him.
“My wife is fond of entertaining men at the frontage of our house which I am strongly against. At my age, I still fetch water and wash my clothes. I never believed she could engage in extra marital sex until I saw her walk out from a hotel with a co-landlord in our neighbourhood. She was shocked to see me but I greeted her. It’s been one year since I stopped asking about her movement. It is painful I can’t do anything as a man. I don’t even know the reason she left her previous marriages. There can’t be peace in our home except we part ways,” he said.
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Giving her own side of the story, Mrs Olayinka, who is a food vendor, said her husband was a violent man and she has not achieved anything since she got married to him.
“He never bought me a wrapper but he complains each time I am in a new outfit. I am surprised he said he is impotent because the last time we slept with each other was February 2014. The night he fell from the bed and defecated, he was drunk. I washed his faeces in the midnight. He didn’t see me in a hotel with another man. I really don’t know why he is saying all this.
“My husband is violent. Whenever he is ready to sleep with me, he beats me with a towel. I will say he was smart enough to bring our case to court because I am also fed up. I just want N200,000 compensation from him and I want him to take responsibilities of our last daughter’s education.”
Also addressing the court, his first son Abdul’razaq said his father is always drunk and this has been an issue for 10 years.He said: “There was a time my father told me my mother was committing adultery; I had to monitor her movement for two days but there was no evidence. There is unity among the children but our parents keep fighting. I will be glad if the court reconciles them because this is the time our father needs care.”
Presiding over the case, the court’s president, Chief Awos Awosola, gave Olayinka two days to re-consider a divorce.