Lagos Court Dissolves 25 Year Old Marriage after Wife Claimed Her Husband Married Her Simply Because She Was a Banker
A Lagos Island Customary Court on Monday dissolved a 25-year-old marriage between a clearing and forwarding agent Remi Ujagbor and his interior decorator wife Gladys Ujagbor.
NAN reports that the matter first came up for mention before the court on Sept. 16, 2014.
Remi had instituted the divorce suit on
the union contracted in 1990 over allegations that his wife had been
involving herself in domestic violence, unfriendliness and lack of peace
with him.
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The President of the court, Chief J.O. Ogunmola,
in his judgment, granted the couple, blessed with three children,
divorce, warning them to refrain from harassing and molesting each
other. He ordered that the petitioner should pay N5, 000 to the
respondent for the monthly upkeep of one of their children who is
underage.
He also said that Remi should also provide other financial assistance to the two other children.
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“The children should also remain with their mother as agreed by both parties,” he ruled.
Earlier, Remi also told the court that
Gladys, besides being unfriendly toward him was always fighting him. He
told the court that he was fed up with the union and pleaded with the
court to dissolve the marriage, based on what he called “irreconcilable
differences”.
“I moved out of our matrimonial home
because my wife is a trouble-maker and all this boils down to the fact
that I could not meet up with her monetary demands,” he said.
However, Gladys, in her testimony,
alleged that the petitioner was physically abusive toward her, adding
that she had been better off without her husband since he had parked out
of their matrimonial home. She alleged that all efforts by her in-laws
and her family to reconcile them proved futile hence she pleaded with
the court to dissolve the union.
“All what my husband said are lies, hell
was let loose when I lost my job as a banker and I could not meet his
financial needs. I regret marrying [him] because I have never enjoyed my
marriage from the inception. He simply married me because I was a
banker so that he could collect money from me to finance his business
but since I lost my job and nothing was forthcoming, he turned me into a
punching bag.”
She also alleged that the petitioner had
threatened her on several occasions with cutlass and had since stopped
providing financial assistance to their three children.
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“I have gotten a job as an interior
decorator and I’m doing perfectly well without him so I’m urging this
court to dissolve our union without further delay,” Gladys pleaded.
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