An
estranged wife, Toyin Ogunminiyi, on Tuesday urged a customary court
sitting in Ikole-Ekiti to help effect the release of her six
pants in her husband’s possession.
Other
personal belongings the complainant sought for retrieval from her
husband, Tope, included two native dresses, one jeans skirt
and a plastic basin.
The
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the woman also prayed the court
to dissolve her 20-year- old marriage.
She
claimed that her husband was constantly beating her and tearing her
dresses in public, in addition to accusing her of
adultery.
The
complainant, who described her husband as a drunk, said he
had abandoned his family responsibilities.
She,
however, sought the custody of their four children , urging the
court to compel her husband to give her N20,000 monthly
feeding allowance.
The
plaintiff, who denied the allegation of adultery against her, said she often
engaged in menial jobs in order to cater for the family.
“My
husband, a commercial motorcyclist, always spends his money on
alcohol and his concubines.
”
He does not take proper care of me and the children. I am seeking
the dissolution of our association as well as the release of my pants in
his house,” the estranged wife said.
But
defending himself, the husband who did not deny his drinking habit,
accused his wife of adultery.
” I
do not want this woman again, she is adulterous,’’ he said.
The
President of the three-man panel, Mrs Yemisi Ojo, adjourned the
matter till Feb. 6 for further hearing.
-NAN
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