A middle-aged woman, Foluke Olayiwola, has dragged her husband Festus
Olayiwola to an Ojo grade A Customary court, for allegedly putting
pepper in her private part and also trying to strangulate her.
Foluke,
a teacher said she met her husband in December 1989, and after they got
married, they have being living together until 1996, when her husband
started suspecting that she was having affair outside their matrimonial
home. She accused him of always beating her up at every slightest
provocation and inflicting injury on her face which she showed to the
court.
She said that whenever Festus sees her discussing with any
man, without knowing who the person is, he would always accuse her of
sleeping with the man. “Each time I attended our landlord meetings, he
would always accused me that I had gone to Be Intimate.”
Foluke,
who resides at No 11, Obadiaya Street, in Ojo area of Lagos, said in
1996, she went to her sister’s place and after she returned from the
journey, he accused her of having gone to Be Intimate with a man. “After
much quarreling, I slept off and in the middle of the night, he put
pepper in my womanliness and I was feeling hot in my private part. The
next day, I ran away to meet my parents and he later came to explain
that it was Chinese balm that he put in my womanliness.
“He
continued with his accusation until in June 8, 2008, when he tied my
neck with rope at night when I was asleep. Before then, I use to think
that it was a dream and whenever I told him about it, he would say it is
a dream, not knowing that it was real. Until that fateful day, at
exactly 12.30am, when he first tied my neck and I was turning on the
bed, thinking that it was a dream.
He quickly untied my neck. I
looked at the time and saw that it was 12 ;30am in the morning, so I
pretended to be sleeping. After sometime, when he thought I had slept
deep, he took the rope again and started tying my neck with it, I still
pretended to be asleep, as he was still tying my neck, I just opened my
eyes and he was shocked. Then, I asked him why he wanted to kill me
after all the suffering I have been going through in his house.
“He
now prostrated on the ground and started begging me, he even asked the
children to help him plead with me, to forgive him, that it is the work
of Satan. I said in 1996, it was the work of Satan, today, in 2008, it
is still the work of Satan.”
Continuing, Foluke, told the court
that a times, when she wakes up, she would find knife on the bed beside
her and whenever she asked him, he would say he doesn’t know how it got
there. “I would call my son that made the bed and he would say he
doesn’t know. My husband would always claim that his actions were
spiritual.
I threatened to leave him severally but each time, he
would plead that I stay because he cannot cope without me. Even when we
relocated to a new compound, he continued with his accusations. The
situation degenerated to an extent that he could not pay our son’s
school fees. I brought him to court because of the continuous threats to
my life not just because he cannot take care of me and the
children,”she stated.
After listening to the petitioner’s
evidence, the trial president, Bola Giwa, of Ojo grade A Customary
Court, adjourned the next hearing of the matter, till December 4 2012,
for the respondent, to give his evidence.
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