“My wife has turned my boxers to
rags as she always tears them to rape me,” a retired soldier, Gafaru Rodoye,
told an Igando Customary court in Lagos.
He told the court on Tuesday that his
wife, Idiat, with whom he had five children in their 20-year old marriage,
always raped him.
“My wife always rape me; she had
turned all my boxers to rags to achieve her selfish aim,” he said.
The
petitioner said that his wife was in the habit of threatening his life through
beating and that he was afraid she might kill him one day.
“I had to
run away from my 16-flat building to rent an apartment elsewhere just to avoid
her frequent beatings, but she trailed me to my new apartment to fight me.
“I have
reported her severally to different police stations, but it did not yield any
positive result,” he said.
Gafaru
said that his wife poured hot water on the new wife that was brought for him
from the village by his family.
He begged
the court to end their 20-year old marriage, saying he was no longer in love as
his life was in danger.
“Please,
separate us before my wife kills me, my life is not safe with her, I am a
pensioner, I need to enjoy the fruit of my labour.” he said.
However,
Mrs Idiat Rodoye, 44, business woman, denied all the allegations, saying her
husband was a womaniser.
“My
husband runs after anything in skirt; he always sends me packing from the house
whenever he wants to bring in another woman.
“He once
sent me out with the children for three years.
“After
sending me out, he had married six different women, but none stayed long with
him. He will always come back to beg me to pack back,’’ she said.
The mother
of five said she never raped her husband, that it was normal for husband and
wife to make love.
The
respondent said that she did not beat her husband, but it was her husband that
was always beating her.
Idiat said
that her husband removed the plasma television, air conditioner and
disconnected the electricity supply from her flat, leaving her and the children
in darkness.
She urged
the court to grant her husband’s wish that she too was tired of the marriage
and no longer in love.
The Court
President, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, adjourned the case to April 5 for further
hearing.
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