A 40-year-old trader, Salau Kehinde, has admitted beating up his wife over sex, but denied planning to pour hot water on her.
A Customary Court in Ikorodu recently heard the case of a husband frequently beating his wife over her refusal to have sex with him. The man Salau Kehinde, 40 who is a trader admitted during the court hearing that he used to physically abuse his wife named Mrs. Salau Shakirat Olaide, over sex. His wife also shockingly accused him of attempting to bath her with hot water.
The man who resides at 9, Fatai Oloko Street, Haruna, Ikorodu was charged to the court by his wife on Thursday, 20th of August for a break in their union.
Salau Kehinde agreed that he used to beat Olaide up whenever she denied him of sex and if she came home late from her trading business, but that he “merely boiled the water so he could threaten her with it.”
“I had no intention of bathing her in the water,”
“She refused to cook for me when she was pregnant. She also said I should look for another wife.” He lamented.
According to the Nation, his 32-year-old wife, Olaide, of 1, Azeez Aremu Close, Ibeshe, Ikorodu, told the court that they got married 10 years ago and had two children together, but had been living separately for over two years now.
She said, “He always refused to give me money and this made us quarrel and fight a lot,” she said. “I had to leave him when he kept threatening to pour hot water on me.”
“His friend advised him to beat me up and he became fond of beating me. He would beat me whenever I returned from work, he would beat me when I told him I was too tired to have sex, or for any flimsy excuse.”
The court adjourned the matter to September 13, for possible reconciliation.