Policeman seeks divorce over alleged infidelity by wife

 A 45-year-old policeman, Mr Rafiu Ademola, on Thursday prayed an Igando Customary Court to dissolve his 14-year-old marriage over wife's alleged adulterous nature. The petitioner told the court that his wife, Rashidat, was promiscuous. He narrated that he saw messages of her adulterous acts on her WhatsApp chats with her lovers, she meets with them at different locations.

She told one of the men that she is a single mother and stays with her sister. He transferred all the chats into my phone as evidence. The plaintiff said that his wife was lazy and hardly cooked for the family. According to him, Rashidat also lacks respect for his parents. He told the court that he no longer loved his wife. He pleaded the court to end their marriage, he could no longer keep her under his roof.

However, Rashidat denied all the allegations but consented to the dissolution of the marriage. She said was never promiscuous, it was her husband that involves in extra marital affairs, he brings women into our matrimonial home. He chased her away recently from his house and brought in one of his concubines, she now live and sleep in her shop.

The 40-year-old fashion designer accused her husband of turning her into a punching bag. she stressed her husband is a wife beater, he beat her at the slightest provocation; the scars on her body are as a result of his beatings. She said there was a day he beat her and chased her out naked with pregnancy. She said that her mother-in-law never liked her and once assaulted her in public.

Rashidat prayed the court to grant her the custody of their children. The last time she saw her children, they all look unkempt, they have skin diseases. She pleaded that she should be in custody of their children so that she can take proper care of them. The Court President, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, urged both parties to maintain peace, and adjourned the case until Dec. 16 for judgment.