Mr. Emmanuel Osuya, a 55-year-old retired civil servant reported to an Igando customary court how his wife has been threatening his life with beating and seeks for dissolution of marriage.
Mr Osuya, has therefore asked the court to dissolve his 32-year-old marriage to his wife, Abigeal Osuya, 50, who he alleged threatens his life with constant beating.
He said: “My wife wants to kill me; she beat me almost every day with dangerous weapons. On three occasions, she broke my leg, preventing me from going out for days,’’
According to Vanguard, Osuya also accused his wife of turning his children against him, thereby making them to hate him.: “Abigeal succeeded in creating enmity between me and my children, she tells them false and damaging stories about me in order to hate me. “So my children only care for her by sending her money and other items every month, without extending their love to me, they always ignore me as if I do not exist.”
Mr Osuya also accused his wife of being a thief. He said she had rendered him financially broke by constantly robbing him of his money.
Osuya said: “I cannot keep money at home again because my wife will steal it. “ She acts as if she is not always satisfied with the money I give her in spite of the fact that my children always send her money every month.”
“I am no longer interested in the marriage, I don’t want to die now, more so that I am out of love’’. Abigeal denied all the allegations. The mother of five said that she had never beaten her husband since the day she married him.”he added.
His wife, Abigeal, has however denied turning her husband into a punching bag
She said: “It was my husband that always beats me on any slight provocation, I have never beaten him.”
Abigeal also claimed that she had never stolen her husband’s money. She asked the court not to grant her husband’s prayer for divorce because she is still in love with him.
Domestic violence is a prevalent problem in Nigeria. Between half and two thirds of Nigerian women are subject to domestic violence in their homes. Only few men suffer such violence at the hands of their wives.
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