Adeyinka Adelakun, a middle aged public school
teacher in Ibadan, on Thursday narrated how his wife, kafayat, poured boiling
water on his manhood which seriously injured him.
Adelakun had approached
an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court at Agodi in Ibadan seeking the dissolution of
his three-year-old marriage to his wife on grounds of threat to life and
constant fighting.
He also prayed the
court to allow him have in his custody the two-year –old child of the marriage
so that he could effectively take care of the child.
According to the
plaintiff, kafayat is in the habit of fighting him and threatening him whenever
they have domestic issues to resolve.
“On Feb 27, 2016, she
started her trouble as usual and I decided to call her mother on phone to
caution her, but kafayat brought a kettle of hot water from the kitchen and
poured it on my genitals and chest.
“The pain was too much,
I was rushed to hospital due to the severe injuries I sustained and I stayed in
the hospital for months.
“Even I cannot use my
injured manhood for any sexual act till now because it has not healed and I
decided to quit the marriage to avoid untimely death.
“Am afraid of living
with a woman that wanted to finish my manhood because she may do more harm if
allow her in my life, “ he said.
Adelakun presented
pictures of his injured genitals as exhibits to prove his case and the court
admitted the pictures.
In her defense, Kafayat
admitted the allegation, but said that it was not intentional and that the hot
water mistakenly poured on her husband when he wanted to beat her.
The defendant told the
court that she was arrested because of the incident and the matter was resolved
later.
Kafayat did not agree
with the dissolution, saying she still loved her husband in spite of
ill-treatment and lack of care from the plaintiff.
The Court President,
Chief Mukaila Balogun, and two assessors, Aare Samotu and Ganiyu Alao, in their
unanimous decision, dissolved the marriage.
Balogun said the
opinion of the court was that there was no more love between the couple and the
parties should go their separate ways to avoid more trouble.
The court further
directed that the only child of the union should be in the custody of her
mother and ordered the plaintiff to pay N4, 000 as monthly allowance for the
upkeep of the child.
“The plaintiff should
also pay N12, 000 and N5, 000 to the defendant to rent a new apartment and to
pack her belongings respectively, “the court ruled.
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