Ademola Odunade, the President of a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Monday dissolved an 11-year-old marriage between one Jimoh Ibrahim and Barakat over unrepentant dirtiness and waywardness.
Odunade held that the court was puting an end to the relationship between Jimoh and Barakat due to loss of love between the couple.
Earlier, Jimoh, a businessman and a resident of Oja-Iba area in Ibadan, told the court that he could no longer cope with his wife’s dirtiness and adultery.
“For 11 years now, I have waited over and over to see whether Barakat would have a change of mind in her bad attitude or not.
“Instead, Barakat’s dirtiness worsened such that I had no option than to be cleaning the house and washing our wears myself.
“I also have to bathe our child and do every other necessary things in the house.
“As if those are not enough, Barakat now move around with a gang of riffraff for the purpose of prostitution
“The marriage between Jimoh and Barakat has ceased to be in the interest of peaceful coexistence.
“Custody of the eight year-old child produced by the union is awarded to Barakat and Jimoh shall pay a monthly allowance of N5,000 for the child’s upkeep in addition to being responsible for his education and other welfare of the child,” the arbitrator said.
“Whenever there was any disagreement between Jimoh and I, he packs his property to his parents’ home.
“In fact, I usually go and beg Jimoh in his parents’ home to return to our own apartment,” Barakat said.
(NAN)
