A retired soldier, Gafaru Rodoye has revealed how his wife and mother of their five
children, has turned almost all his boxers to rags while trying to force him to sleep with her against his will.He revealed all this at the Igando Customary court in
Lagos today.
“My wife always rape me; she had turned all my boxers to rags to achieve her selfish aim,” he said.
The petitioner who got married to Idiat 20 years ago further revealed that his wife was in the habit of threatening his
life through beating and that he was afraid she might kill him one day.
“I had to run away from my 16-flat building to rent an apartment
elsewhere just to avoid her frequent beatings, but she trailed me to my
new apartment to fight me. “I have reported her severally to different
police stations, but it did not yield any positive result,” he said.
Gafaru said that his wife poured hot water on the new wife that was
brought for him from the village by his family. He begged the court to
end their 20-year old marriage, saying he was no longer in love as his
life was in danger.
“Please, separate us before my wife kills me, my life is not safe with
her, I am a pensioner, I need to enjoy the fruit of my labour.” he
said.
However, Mrs Idiat Rodoye, 44, business woman, denied all the allegations, saying her husband was a womaniser.
“My husband runs after anything in skirt; he always sends me packing
from the house whenever he wants to bring in another woman. “He once
sent me out with the children for three years. “After sending me out, he
had married six different women, but none stayed long with him. He will
always come back to beg me to pack back,’’ she said.
The mother of five said she never raped her husband, that it was normal
for husband and wife to make love. The respondent said that she did not
beat her husband, but it was her husband that was always beating her.
Idiat said that her husband removed the plasma television, air
conditioner and disconnected the electricity supply from her flat,
leaving her and the children in darkness.
She urged the court to grant her husband’s wish that she too was tired
of the marriage and no longer in love. The Court President, Mr
Adegboyega Omilola, adjourned the case to April 5 for further hearing.