By Umar Bayo Abdulwahab
Ilorin
An Ibadan housewife, Sherifat Asimiyu, has approached an Ibadan Customary Court sitting in Agodi to dissolve her 10-year-old marriage with Mr. Saheed Asimiyu over her husband’s physical and psychological assaults.
Sherifat told the court that apart from starving her of sex, Saheed was also in the habit of beating and biting her whenever they had misunderstandings, noting that she could no longer cope without sex, as her husband had not slept with her in the last six months.
According to her: “There is no doubt about his ability to provide food, money and other material things for me and the two children of the union but I am not satisfied with all these without sex.
“He abandoned me deliberately, I cannot take it anymore because I am still young and I see no reason for his action. To make the issue worst, he was in the habit of beating and biting me whenever we have misunderstanding over minor issues.”
The husband, who is a motor spare parts dealer, admitted that he had starved his wife of sex, as he was on “sex strike” in the last one month, to punish the woman for her bad character.
Saheed also told the court that he would not prevent his wife from getting the divorce she asked for, “if that is what will make her satisfied”.
President of the court, Chief Mukaila Balogun, upheld the prayer of the woman and approved the dissolution of the marriage.
He ordered the defendant to be paying N6,000 to Sherifat as monthly allowance for the upkeep of their two children.
