David
Adeoye: A 65-year-old man on Friday told an Ibadan Customary Court, sitting in
Agodi, how his wife of 38 years committed adultery with his typist while he was
away on official assignment.
The
husband, Mr Alaba Aigbe, had asked the court to dissolve his marriage with
Veronica over alleged adultery and witchcraft.
In his
testimony, the complainant said that while he was on official assignment in
Jigawa in 2006, he asked his typist to be collecting his salaries and give to
his wife.
“Since
the assignment will take a year to complete, I asked my typist to receive my
salaries on my behalf and forward it to my wife because I did not want her and
the children to suffer when I was away.
“My
typist used the opportunity to woo my wife and they started the illicit affairs
until 2007 when I returned home.
“I
suspected the immorality when things turned upside down for my family and I
sought for a spiritual solution.
“It
was in the course of finding a solution to the problem that I got to know about
the relationship between her and the typist.
“She
confessed to me but said the typist only fingered her private part on four
different occasions when I was away.
“I
told her that the only condition to forgive her was to follow me to my village
to make some rituals and appeal to my family gods because adultery is an
abomination in my village.
“She
refused to follow me, saying that she is a Deaconess and that she had taken the
typist to her pastor for confession of sin and forgiveness,” the complainant
narrated.
In her
defense, Veronica, who did not deny the allegation, said her husband was the
cause of the incident, saying that she had warned her husband not to allow the
typist come to their house.
Veronica,
however, pleaded the court not to dissolve the marriage which was blessed with
seven children, saying she had suffered enough about the issue.
In his
judgment, Chief Mukaila Balogun, the president of the court, dissolved the
marriage and ordered the complainant to pay N17,000 to the defendant for her to
pack her load.
Balogun
further directed that the defendant should take custody of the seventh child
while the husband should pay her N5000 monthly allowance or the upkeep of the
child.
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