An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court today dissolved an 8-year-old marriage over the wife's alleged stealing habit.
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An eight-year-old marriage between Tajudeen Owolabi and his wife, Idayat, has been dissolved today at an a Customary Court sitting in Ekiti state over the woman’s alleged stealing habit.
35-year-old Tajudeen of Balota Street in Odo-Ado, Ado-Ekiti, had told the court that his wife’s bad habits had left him restless. “She is fond of stealing my money and will not allow my business to grow,” he claimed.
The father-of-two also alleged that his wife hardly prepared food on time and would not wash his clothes. “She is fond of saying that my business will go down (crash) and that I will see paper and call it money.
“Each time I reported my wife to her parents, the mother was always supporting her daughter; it is only the father that was always telling her the truth.”
He also alleged that Idayat once stormed his house in company of her family members and “disorganised” everything on sight, after pulling off the compound’s burglary proof and therefore, prayed the court to dissolve the marriage.
28-year-old Idayat, a resident of Omi Olori in Odo-Ado, denied the allegation of stealing her husband’s money and ever breaking-in into her husband’s house in company with her family members.
She claimed that her husband refused to give her the family’s upkeep allowance for four months and would not eat any food prepared by her.
The court’s president, Mrs Olayinka Akomolede, who observed that the marriage had broken down irretrievably and, consequently, dissolved it as it cited threats to his life, ill treatment, cursing and disrespect as other reasons for the divorce.
The court ruled that the custody of Ismail, 8, one of the two male children of the marriage, should be awarded to the husband, while the wife should take custody of Lateef, the other one-year-old male child of the marriage.
The court also ordered the husband to be paying N4,000 monthly to Idayat as Lateef’s feeding allowance, while equally paying the boy’s school fees. The court also granted both parents access to their children.