‘My wife flirts around with okada men’

A housewife, Adenike Nasirudeen, who filed a divorce suit at the Grade ‘A’ Customary Court, Lagos State asking for dissolution of her six -year-old marriage to her husband, Fatai Nasirudeen got more than she bargained for when her husband told the court that she  flirts around with okada men.

In the suit, Adenike alleged that her husband had been mistreating her for some time now and that he was too temperamental.

In his own response, the respondent told the court: “She is a flirt. She has been flirting around with an okada rider (commercial motorcyclist).She always keep late nights and she did not give me peace of mind.

“Though, l reported the matter to her parents hoping that she would turn a new leaf, but she does not show any sign of remorse”.

Earlier in her submission, Adenike informed that her husband is highly temperamental, and beats her at any slightest provocation.

“There was a day he accused me of stealing N75,000 from his wardrobe, he capitalised on the accusation, and stopped giving me feeding allowance”.

Adenike, however denied having any no amorous relationship with any okada rider because he is well known to her husband and had once taken her and Nasirudeen to their office.

“Shortly after l packed out of his house, he came to apologise, hoping that he had had a change of mind, but unknown to me that he was there on a mission to kill the only child that binds us together”.

She added that her husband had made attempts to strangle their daughter to death, and in the process, to get the child for him he punches her in the stomach.

She therefore urged the court to dissolve the marriage and grant her custody of the child.

The court president, Mr. Emmaunel Shokunle has adjourned the case till October 9, 2012 for further hearing.