A housewife, Iyabo Olatunji , has told an Akure
Customary Court that her husband, Ezekiel, is still under his mother’s
tutelage.
Iyabo
also said her husband is an alcoholic and batters her at will without any
caution from his mother.
Iyabo,
made this known while testifying in her divorce proceedings on Friday.
She
said, “My husband was working by his mother’s directive.
“It is my mother-in-law that gives us food and
my husband will not do anything except waiting for his mother’s money.
“The
worst part is that my mother-in-law will not tell her son to stop beating me.”
She
begged the court to dissolve her five-year-old marriage to Ezekiel for alleged
intake of excessive alcohol.
The
complainant said that she could no longer tolerate the constant beating she got
whenever her spouse was drunk.
According
to her, the alcoholic intake has rendered the respondent irrational in the way
he treats her.
She
appealed to the court to award custody of the only child of the marriage to
her.
Ruling
on the case, the President of the court, Mr Rotimi Olusanya, said the repeated
refusal of the respondent’s appearance in court would not stop the proceedings.
Olusanya
adjourned the case till Sept. 27 for judgment.
-NAN
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