Nigeria is a county that
you cannot catch un-aware. Is a country that have its own law either its barbaric
or normal. In Nigeria , we have constitution, we Sharia law, Christian law, Common law, civil law, etc.
Every villages have its own laws, even an individual
too...people like Yerima have his own law, that allow him to marry a baby girl
as a wife.
A drama ensue in Lagos of recent when two men,
Anyaso Udeh from Abia State and Gabriel from Delta State
lay claimed to have married one woman Patricia Osadebe and had 5 children
from her. Both of this guys are claiming that they are the husband and father
to these children respectively.
Here them: .
Gabriel said ‘he married
Patricia and paid her bride price and so, she is his legitimate wife and the
children belong to him’’. Anyaso Udeh on his part claimed that’’ despite the
fact that he did not pay Patricia’s bride price, he is the biological father of
the five children’’
''However, the genesis of
their story began when Patricia Osadebe left Gabriel in Delta State and came to
Lagos and lived with Udeh from Abiriba in Abia State as husband and wife and
had five children and she decided to go back to her former husband, Gabriel,
last year, with her five children and claimed that the children belong to him.''
Patricia said she married Gabriel more than 20 years ago and they had a
daughter who is now married and has kids.
Chief Agumba , who is the
head of the Patricia’s family in Lagos said ‘’the family does not recognize
Udeh because there was no proper marriage between him and their daughter,
Patricia. and since Gabriel properly married her according to their culture and
tradition in Delta State, the children belong to Gabriel. He said Gabriel is
recognized as her husband and if indeed Udeh wanted to marry Patricia, he would
have paid the bride price to the family.’’
In the main time. Udeh is
pleading that if Patricia has decided to go back to Gabriel, her family should
allow him take custody of his children in the interest of peace and justice,
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