“Adultery is and
has always been a major cause of divorce. This marriage is hereby dissolved
with immediate effect,” President of the Orile Agege Customary court, Chief
Bolarinwa Popoola said, while dissolving the 17-year-old marriage between
Funmilayo Kareem and her husband, Saliu.
Funmilayo, a mother of three, said: “The major reason I want to divorce him is
that he is a dirty man and he fights and curses me a lot. I do not know how I
became his wife, only God knows, I was forced to marry him, until now, I do not
know his people.
“About two years ago, he told me to follow him to a
prophet, I refused to go, so he asked me to leave and I moved out since 2012
and we have been separated since then,” she said.
Saliu, on his own denied all the allegations and urged
the court to grant his wife’s request.
“It is not true that she was
forced to marry me; we knew each other for about a year before I married her.
We even went to pay her bride price to her family. What actually happened was
that she became adulterous and I reported her to her parents.
“She claimed to be attending vigils, but I got to know
that she was sleeping around. I once did not allow her to go for the vigil but
she insisted and left without my permission.
“I went to the pastor and asked of her, the pastor denied
seeing her and he called her, which was when she said she told me a lie to
leave the house.
“The reason she came to court is that she has a child for
another man, she even left my house with the pregnancy,” he said.
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