Lagos— A 75-year-old man, Fashola Fakorede,
yesterday urged an Igando Customary Court, Lagos,
to dissolve his marriage to his wife, Funke, 49, for
allegedly beating him.
Fakorede told the court that his wife had turned him
into a punching bag and also inflicted injuries on
him.
He said: “My wife wants to kill me, she beats me
every day, I don’t want to die now, save my life.
“My wife always beat me if I asked for food or
anything. She has turned it to a routine. All the scars
on my body is as a result of her battery on me.”
Fakorede said his wife no longer takes care of him,
adding: “She goes out and returns home at will
without seeking my permission.
“She can go out for days and if I queried her, she
would hit me with any dangerous weapon she could
lay her hand on at that moment.
“And my daughter is also following her footstep. She
brings home different men and my wife will not
query her. So, I sent her away from my house.”
He urged the court to dissolve the union, saying he
was no longer in love with her and was tired of the
regular battery, which had led to his ill-health.
“I am tired of the constant beating, I am afraid this
woman will kill me one day. I am not ready to die
now,” he pleaded.
Funke, a trader, denied the allegations, saying that
she did not beat her husband and always took good
care of him and respected him.
The mother of three, however, accused her husband
of denying his children the right to go to school.
She said: “My husband is unable to send any of his
three children to secondary school. My husband is
not responsible.
“None of our children went to secondary school, all of
them stopped schooling at primary school.”
She said her husband had disowned his daughter,
and urged the court not to grant his wish as she still
loved him.
“I have no where to go as no man will want to marry
me at my age,” she said.
The court president, Mr R. I. Adeyeri, adjourned the
case to November 25 for further hearing.


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