Andre Uweh:

Wife seeks divorce over beating
19 February, 2010 07:26:00 Geraldine Okolie
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The business woman Mrs. Mary Bolodeoku claimed that her husband beats her at every slightest provocation, non payment of their children school fees, embarrassment and molestation in public.

The petitioner also claimed that the last time her husband visited at her shop where she sells cooked food stuffs, she was badly humiliated.

She also told the court that due to the nature of his job, he returns home at anytime he wishes.

Mrs. Bolodeoku amidst sobs also said that "the last time we encountered, he beat hell out of me, throwing objects at me, he almost broke my legs", hence her wanting to dissolve the union.

She therefore pleaded that the custody of her two children be given to her.

The respondent Mr. Gbenga Bolodeoku a commercial bus driver who plies Lagos and outside however did not consent to the dissolution of the union but rebuffed all the claims leveled against him saying "it is due the nature of my job I was absent the at the last adjournment which could have enabled me to quicken the reconciliation move", He also explained that he briefed their family lawyer who spoke on his behalf then.

He however admitted that he goes to her shop to see his children and not to humiliate her in any way "it is because of my kids under her care, hence my frequent appearance at her shop".

Counsel to the respondent Mr. Alex Onazi who also doubles as a friend of the family while responding to the question if he was really a friend of he family, admitted that he knows them very well, "so I thought it wise to see that the only thing I can do is to make sure that they reunite".

On what steps he has been taking in seeing that the couple unites, he said wife has been intervening as well.

The Court therefore advised that the lawyer’s wife be brought to the court at the next adjournment; the matter was then adjourned till 15 of March 2010.


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Andre Uweh:

For all those women who suffer in silence, seek divorce and save your lives.

snowdrops:

What about the men that suffer in silence

Andre Uweh:

BUT ATLEAST, THEIR WIVES DO NOT BEAT THEM UP.

~Sissy~:

^^^^
very true. many women sustain abuse day and night thinking they are doing their children good by staying not knowing the emotional and psychological torture they are doing their kids.

aloy-emeka:

Many men sustain abuse too for the same reason. This really shouldn't be a gender issue.

bubugul:

another debate trend