Court Dissolves Four-Year-Old Marriage Over Wife’s Drunkenness

An Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan, on Tuesday, dissolved a
four-year-old marriage between Abosede Adesonwo and husband, Wasiu
over drunkenness and threat to life.

Delivering judgment, President of the Court, Chief Henry Agbaje
said that the court dissolved the marriage in the interest of peace
and tranquility.

Agbaje awarded custody of the only child to Adesonwo and ordered
Wasiu to pay N5,000 as the child’s monthly feeding allowance.

Earlier, Wasiu, a baker, alleged that his wife was an
unrepentant drunk.

”She feeds our three and a half-year-old daughter beer. I never
knew that she was drunk before I exchanged marital vows with
her.

”She showed me and has shown her true colour,” she said.

Adesonwo, a trader said that she made up her mind to call it
quits because he beats her.

”My marriage has become uninteresting and meaningless. He also
threatened to kill me,” she told the court. (NAN)

An Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan, on Tuesday, dissolved a
four-year-old marriage between Abosede Adesonwo and husband, Wasiu
over drunkenness and threat to life.

Delivering judgment, President of the Court, Chief Henry Agbaje
said that the court dissolved the marriage in the interest of peace
and tranquility.

Agbaje awarded custody of the only child to Adesonwo and ordered
Wasiu to pay N5,000 as the child’s monthly feeding allowance.

Earlier, Wasiu, a baker, alleged that his wife was an
unrepentant drunk.

”She feeds our three and a half-year-old daughter beer. I never
knew that she was drunk before I exchanged marital vows with
her.

”She showed me and has shown her true colour,” she said.

Adesonwo, a trader said that she made up her mind to call it
quits because he beats her.

”My marriage has become uninteresting and meaningless. He also
threatened to kill me,” she told the court. (NAN)