Court Saves Marriage Of A 62-Year-Old Journalist From Collapse

            

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday saved a barren four-year-old marriage between a popular journalist based in Lagos, Emeka Iwuoha, 62, and his wife, Obiageli, from collapse.

The President of the court, Mr R.I Adeyeri, was able to reconcile the couple after thorough counseling.

In his judgment, Adeyeri ordered the respondent to write an undertaking that she would be of good behaviour.

Iwuoha, had on July 14, sought the dissolution of marriage over wife’s excessive jealousy and hot temper.

“My wife is a jealous woman; she attacks any female she sees with me, accusing me of dating them.

“There was a day she saw me with a lady living three streets from ours, she came there to beat and strip her naked.

“Yet on another day, she attacked and locked up my female colleague, who came to visit me when I was sick,” Iwuoha said.

He described his wife as a violent and hot-tempered woman, who was always the first to attack him with any available object whenever they had little misunderstanding.

“She had rendered two of my fingers useless because of her violent action,” Iwuoha added.

He accused his wife of always being hostile to his friends and family, saying that she had driven away everybody around him and that she did not want to see any of his friends and family members.

“There was a day my nephew visited, she poured hot water on him and chased him out of my house, telling him to leave that there was no space.”

He begged the court to dissolve the marriage as he was fed up with the union and was no longer in love as she might kill him one day.

In her defence, the respondent, Obiageli, 42, a businesswoman, told the court that her husband was a womanizer.

“My husband runs after women because I could not give him a child. He always calls them to meet him at a special rendezvous.

“There was a night he wanted to rape my daughter (his stepdaughter) when I travelled but my daughter ran out of her room and stayed with one of our neighbours,” Obiageli said.

The respondent said that she was not violent and that it was her husband who was aggressive over little misunderstanding.

She said she was not hostile to his family neither did she eject her husband’s nephew as he left on his own will.

The woman begged the court to save her marriage as she was still interested in the union.