50-yr-old teacher says wife’s beatings made him run from home

Musiliu Yusuf, a 50-year-old teacher has told an Igando Customary Court sitting in Lagos the reasons he absconded from his matrimonial home.

In a report by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Yusuf told the court that the overbearing nature of his wife who got impregnated by one of her lovers inside their matrimonial home is one of the reasons while also revealing that his wife has the habit of beating him at the slightest provocation.

“My wife committed adultery, she got pregnant for one of her lovers in our matrimonial home,” Mr. Yusuf said while testifying in a divorce suit instituted by his wife, Hassana.

“My wife is promiscuous; my fellow landlords are her boyfriends. She got pregnant for one of them, they mock and make jest of me whenever they see me.

“I stopped making love to her in June 2014 due to her infidelity and in 2015 she told me she was pregnant. “I rejected the pregnancy and even after delivery of the baby, I refused to care for her because the baby is not mine,” Yusuf said.

The estranged husband also went further to mention a list of love nests (hotels) where his wife and her lover usually visit to have s*x.

“I packed out from the house I built on four different occasions because I fear for my life as my wife always beat me on any slight provocation.

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“I finally ran out on June 14, 2015 and refused to go back just to save my life because I don’t want to die,” he said.

A visibly disturbed Yusuf also told the court that contrary to claims by his wife that they both contributed to build their house and school, she never donated to both structures and even went further to tender title documents of the property in question as exhibits.

But on the other hand, his wife, Hassana, 39, a teacher, who incidentally filed a suit to end her 13-year-old marriage, revealed that her husband had more than once said he will end her life and also threatened to take over property they both acquired.

“He threatened to kill me so that he can take over what we both laboured for. He always boasts that nobody will question him if he kills me.

“We jointly bought a coaster bus and two plots of land. We used a plot to build a house, the other a school,” she said.

The petitioner said that her husband was in the habit of accusing her of infidelity.

“My husband is suspicious of my moves; every man I talk to is my boyfriend. He has no trust, whatsoever in me,” the estranged wife said.

Hassana said that her husband packed out of their home without any notice to an unknown destination.

“On many occasions, he had abandoned me and the children. He once left the house for a year,” she said.

While delivering his judgement, the President of the court, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, said all efforts to reconcile the couple proved abortive as they both seem to be tired of their marriage.

“Since both parties consented to the dissolution of their marriage, this court has no choice than to dissolve the marriage.

“The court pronounces the marriage between Hassana Yusuf and Musiliu Yusuf dissolved today; both parties henceforth cease to be husband and wife.

“Both are free to go their separate ways without any hindrances and molestation,” Omilola ruled.

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