A middle-aged woman in Ibadan, Oyo State has gotten the
leave of a Customary Court to divorce one of her two husbands.
The woman, Modinat Mufutau, told an Idi-Ogungun Customary
Court, Agodi in Ibadan on Tuesday how she alternated two husbands in order to
satisfy herself and get enough money to take care of her three children.
Modinat had begged the court to dissolve her 12-year-old
relationship to one of her husbands, Ajadi Mufutau, for alleged lack of care
and maltreatment.
She told the court that she met Mufutau in 2005, and he
impregnated her without marriage formalities.
“But when he impregnated me, he began maltreating and
beating me whenever I demanded money for antenatal care.
“I left his house after delivery and hooked up with
another man, Saheed, who impregnated me two years later but turned me into a
punching bag after delivery of my second child for him.
“Later, I settled down with Mufutau, got third pregnant
for him, but Saheed, who I have second child for, begged me to continue with
him.
“I decided dating two of them without any problem until
they met each other in my rented apartment and fought.
“My Lord, I have made up my mind to divorce Mufutau
because he had stopped giving me money for the maintenance of the two kids I
had for him since he fought his rival, Saheed, in my apartment,” Modinat said.
Mufutau did not contest the petition for dissolution.
He said, “Modinat is a shameless woman. I was not aware
that she still dates Saheed until I met him in the apartment I rented for her
and she did not see anything bad in her action.
President of the court, Chief Mukaila Balogun, and the
court’s assessors, Aare Samotu and Ganiyu Alao, agreed and dissolved the union.
The court awarded the custody of their first child to the
respondent and the second child to the petitioner.
Balogun ordered Mufutau to pay N3,500 as monthly
allowance for the upkeep of the second child and warned both parties against
fomenting trouble.
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