A man, Olabisi Afolayan, has told an Osogbo Grade 11
Customary Court in Osun State how he once caught his wife, Folasade, having sex
with a pastor’s son inside a church near their house.
He said he could no longer condone the promiscuity of his
wife, disclosing that she also ran away with a man in 2003, abandoning her
matrimonial home for four years. Olabisi, who said his marriage of 20-years was
blessed with five children, approached the court to dissolve the marriage over
his wife’s alleged adulterous ways.
“The cause of the fight is her adulterous ways and she
causes problems for me because she once ran away with another man in 2003 and I
did not find her until 2007. By the time she came back, I had married another
wife. Attempts at reconciliation were made but I refused. She invited the
police to harass my second wife until she ran away,” Olabisi said.
He added, “she once told me that she wanted to go and buy
bread, and that was how she disappeared for three days. I also came back from
work one day and was told she was not around, I later heard her voice and
traced her to a church near our house.
“When I got there, I found my wife and the pastor’s son
having sex. I went to get a cutlass, but before I came back, they had fled. I
want the court to know that I am not the father of our sixth child and I am not
responsible for the pregnancy she is carrying,” Olabisi added.
Folasade, however, said that the marriage was blessed with
six children and she was pregnant with the seventh child. “We have six children
and not five and we have been married for 20 years, but we have never lived together
because of constant fightings,” she said.
“The problem began when my husband took me to a herbalist,
who demanded evidence of my menstruation. I told my pastor about it and he
advised that I should not live together with him again. But after that, we
rented an apartment and started living together.
“This was when I became pregnant with our sixth child and
this year, we have slept together and it resulted in the pregnancy I am
carrying,” she added.
Delivering his judgment, President of the court, Chief
Popoola Bolarinwa, said, “the defendant has now agreed that the sixth child,
now three-year-old, does not belong to the plaintiff, which is a proof of
adultery.
“Adultery is a major reason for granting divorce. The court
decides to dissolve the marriage on the grounds of acceptance of adultery by
the defendant. The plaintiff should be responsible for the upkeep of the
children with a sum of N2000 per child making a total sum of N10,000 monthly.
“He should be responsible for their education and medical
expenses. The plaintiff is also granted right of access either through the
court or as mutually agreed,” he ordered.
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