A Lagos Customary Court in Ojo, Lagos, yesterday [Sep 5] heard how a 50-year-old lawyer is being maltreated by his wife because he cannot buy her a new car. Adewoyo Adetoro married his wife, Ronke 12 years ago. The two have three children aged 11, 9 and 5.
Adetoro alleged that his wife has become egocentric and materialistic especially since she started keeping a clique of high class women as friends.
He said:
"All had been moving on well with my marriage until she started keeping the company of high class women some years ago. In 2006, my wife engaged me in a fierce battle over my inability to buy her a car. She even bit-off my lower lip because I told her I had no money for a new car.”
"I have received several slaps from this woman I call wife”.
"I had initially sought dissolution of this marriage in 2006, but her family members intervened and I relented. She makes unnecessary demands that are too hard for me to meet”.
Adetoro alleged that since the beginning of the year, she has increased her demand for a new car because all her friends have cars. He said he had to sacrifice his own car for her, but she is insisting on a new car. "I even sacrificed my own car for her just for the sake of peace, but she told me that she was not a second hand wife and should be given a new one”.
Adetoro said his wife demanded that daily food allowance must be increased from N600 to N2, 000. "Worst still, this woman told me that I must change the cooking stove to a gas cooker”.
"Without my consent, she used my money to open a shop at Iyana-Isashi, but my anger now is that she makes my children go to school late and leave early so that they can come and sell for her. I don't like this...it is affecting my children's education", the lawyer lamented.
He said: "My wife is too self-centered, money conscious and wicked to be called a wife or mother”.
"I pray this court to dissolve our union since I have endured beyond acceptable limit. I also appeal that I be granted custody of our three children as I would never allow them grow under the hands of such a greedy woman”.
The court president, Mr S.B. Giwa, adjourned the case till September 11, for the woman's response.
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