The president of Grade A Customary Court (Court 2), Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, Mrs. O.E. Owoseni, has dissolved a 10-year-old marriage between Adebimpe and her husband, Olusoji.
Mrs. Owoseni anchored the dissolution on lack of care and love; deceit, drug addiction and domestic violence by Olusoji towards his wife, Adebimpe.
The judge also granted the plaintiff custody of their children.
She gave an order restricting the defendant from harassing, threatening, and interfering with the plaintiff’s private life.
The court president said that the couple had a valid court marriage and the defendant was given ample opportunity to defend himself, but he chose to be absent in court.
Owoseni stated further that the unchallenged evidence that the plaintiff is irresponsible was enough reason to dissolve the marriage.
Adebimpe, who dragged her husband, Olusoji, to court, stated that her husband deceived her when they met.
According to her, the husband claimed he was a National Diploma Certificate holder and that he only told her the truth about his educational status a few weeks before their wedding.
The plaintiff stated that the defendant confessed to her that he was rusticated from school for a banned cult-related offence.
In her testimony, Adebimpe said:
“I met my husband in 2014, and we got married in 2015. My parents returned to him the bride price he paid for me.
“My husband built our relationship on deceit. He lied to me when we were courting that he had a National Diploma degree, but later confessed a few weeks to our wedding that he was expelled from school as a result of his involvement in banned cult activities.
“I discovered a month into our marriage that my husband is a drug addict. I reported him to his parents, who asked that I pray for him.
“They assured me that he would change, but unfortunately, he got worse.
“My husband was irresponsible and negligent of my needs and those of our children. He hardly gave us a feeding allowance and was indifferent to our children’s education.
“He always complained of paucity of funds anytime I challenged him to be up to his responsibilities in the home and would sometimes beat me to a pulp.
“I was therefore left with no other choice than to add his duties to mine in the home.
“My husband, to my chagrin, resigned from his job and started living with me.
“Life became tougher because we were invariably eating from hand to mouth.
“He stopped coming home to sleep after we fought over his irresponsible act.
“The conflict in our marriage was resolved after our parents mediated our differences, but my husband still refused to return home.
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“He came on a few occasions to check on our children.
“On one of these occasions, he had an altercation with our landlord who gave us a quit notice.
“I reported him to his mother, and he got angry and beat me till my face got swollen.
“He did not stop beating me until I fainted.
“I got him arrested by the police and he was detained for days.
“Our female child, who is the youngest of our children, has been complaining of vaginal pain, which is accredited to my husband when the children paid him a visit in his new abode.
“My husband destroyed the pictures and the compact disc of our wedding ceremony.
“He once spit on me and now threatens to beat me if I refuse to release our children to him.
“I pray to this honourable court to dissolve our marriage and grant me custody of our children because my husband is not a good example to them.”
Olusoji failed to make an appearance in court despite being served court summons.
