[Marriage dissolved] Wife says her hubby use to rape her anytime she was not in the mood for sèx.

 A customary court in Igando, Lagos, has dissolved the nine-year marriage between Emmanuel Adegbola and his wife, Olufunke, on grounds of infidelity by the woman. Olufunke also accused her estranged husband of always ràping her anytime she was not in the mood for sèx.

The court President, Mr. R. I. Adeyeri, said it appeared that the estranged couple was tired of the marriage and that efforts to reconcile both parties had failed.

 “Since both parties consented to the dissolution of the marriage, the court has no choice than to dissolve the union. “Both parties are no longer husband and wife, they are free to go their separate ways,” he said.

 Adeyeri ruled that the issue of custody of their four children, aged between eight years and four years, including a set of twins, should be referred to the family court within the Lagos Judicial Division.

 The court president also ordered the petitioner to pay N50, 000 as rehabilitation cost to the respondent. Adegbola, a 63-year-old businessman, had filed the suit on June 26, seeking dissolution of his nine-year marriage over infidelity on the part of the wife.

 He told the court that his wife was having an affair and that the other man was always coming to his wife’s apartment whenever he (Adegbola) travelled out of Lagos on business. “My wife was harbouring her lover in the apartment I rented for her.

 Anytime I go there unannounced, I always meet the man. My wife is always unable to give a satisfactory answer when I ask her what the man’s mission is in the apartment. “She has also been threatening my business by setting up shop in the same business, close to my business address and diverting my customers to her shop.

 Initially, I told her that we should start a pure water business together. She told me she was not interested. But later, she opened her own pure water business without my consent, snatching all my customers.

 This is now affecting my own business,” he said. He also said that his wife was no more cooking for him, as she would complain of tiredness, and ask him to cook his own food.

 In her response, Olufunke, a 40-year-old businesswoman, denied the allegations. She told the court that the man her husband sees in her apartment is her brother and that she is not having an affair with any man.

She also said that she was not threatening her husband’s business, and that she set up her own business because her husband was not paying her a salary, but was using her as a slave. “My husband was only using me as a slave. He was not giving me money. He and his first wife were sharing the proceeds of the business and giving me nothing,” she said