My wife always threatens me with cutlass,husband tells court

Daily Independent Reports:

A civil servant, Mr Musibau Lawal, has pleaded with an Igando Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his three-year-old marriage for alleged threat to his life.

Lawal, 43, told the court on Friday that his wife, Wunmi, was always threatening his life with cutlass and knife.

“Anytime we had misunderstanding or engaged in fighting she would bring out knife or cutlass and threaten to kill me. The petitioner said Wunmi always stripped him naked while cursing him.

“There was a day she placed a curse on me that I would be sacked in my office and truly that day, when I got to office, I was greeted with a sack letter.

“When I came back that day, she again cursed me that I would never come across a helper, so I ran away from the house to avert more problems,” he said. He also accused his wife for embarrassing him always in the public, fighting and dragging him.

“My wife has made me a laughing stock in my area; I always sneaked out of my house and sneaked in just to avoid people, who always made jest of me,” Lawal said.

Lawal asked the court to dissolve the marriage, as he was no longer interested because his life was in danger.

Wunmi, 36, and a fashion designer, said she usually used knife to threaten her husband as self defence.

“I don’t mean to hurt him with the knife, I always used it as defence to prevent him from beating me,” she said.

She, however, denied the allegation that she used to curse her husband, saying anytime he offended her, she would hand him over to God.

“My husband is good in complaining, he always complained that I slept naked and I don’t see anything wrong in that, as husband and wife I don’t need to cover myself while asleep.” She urged the court not to dissolve their marriage, saying she still loved her husband.

The court president, Mr Ruphus Adeyeri, adjourned the case till January 15 for judgement.