There was a mild drama recently at the Agboyi/
Ketu customary court when a woman Ethel
Amagala 53, who had earlier approached the court
for the dissolution of her marriage with one
Emmanuel Amagala, 60, stormed the court in
anger over newspaper publication of her divorce
case.

Mrs Amagala whose children had earlier
pleaded the court to discontinue the case, said her
husband also became angry when he read their
divorce story in the newspaper (not Vanguard). She
said: “The children want the case discontinued as it
is causing embarrassment to the family.

They said they would find a way to bring peace into the family.”


She had on the November 12, 2015 approached the court for a divorce with her estranged husband
who she said took a new younger wife. The President, Mr. O. T. William however lampooned Mrs Amagala over her behaviour noting that the court was a public place and could not have stopped journalists from doing their job. The embattled woman sought divorce on the
grounds of abandonment, infidelity, lack of love and threat to life. “My husband constantly tells me I’m old.”


Narrating how she met her husband over 27 years
ago, she said: “When he was studying at the
Teachers’ Institute in Bayelsa, he did not have
money to take care of the family; I was frying and
selling chips in Bayelsa and even borrowed money
for his studies.” When we had our first child, it was
my elder sister who paid for the hospital bill and
took care of me and the baby for three months.

The situation remained same until 1991 when he
took up an appointment with the NNPC, as a
manager. Now, he decided to marry a younger
woman and calls me a witch saying “I am old.”
She further claimed that her husband constantly
beats her, leaving her with injuries. “He had one
day threatened me with a knife in the presence of
our tenants who rescued me as he would have
stabbed me with the knife.”

Mr Emmanuel
Amagala denied the allegation of assault story on
his wife but told the court he abandoned the house
he built and decided to live alone in a rented
apartment because of her incessant nagging
attitude which he described as unbearable. The
President however asked the couple to go home
and make their marriage work.




Nlanders what's your take on this?