‘My Wife Brandishes Cutlass At Me Any Time We Fight’ -- Man Tells Court

A driver, Mr Talabi Ajayi, has approached an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court in Ekiti State, seeking dissolution of his three-year-old marriage to his wife, Sola. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the petitioner sought the dissolution on grounds of alleged frequent fighting and threat to his life....

He told the court that the respondent was fond of fighting with him and their neighbours.

Talabi, a commercial driver, told the court that the respondent was fond of fighting over trivial matters... He stated that the respondent always fight him whenever he queried her for wrong actions. 

The father of two said there was a day the respondent fought one of their neighbours, but all his attempts to settle the dispute proved abortive. He alleged that on the midnight after the incident, the respondent took a cutlass and threatened to kill him.

According to him, he struggled with the respondent and eventually collected the cutlass from her.

He further stated that he had reported the respondent to her relatives, but she refused to change. He added that the respondent was in the habit of coming to the motor park to embarrass him and sometimes threaten to kill him whenever they had any misunderstanding.

He, therefore, prayed the court to dissolve his marriage to the respondent to enable him have peace of mind.

The respondent refuted all the allegations leveled against her by the petitioner.

She said that the petitioner failed to take good care of his children contrary to his claims that he usually provided feeding allowance for them.

Sola said one of the issues that often caused misunderstanding was his nonchalant attitude to the welfare of the children.

The respondent prayed the court to grant her the opportunity to bring her witnesses to court.

The court president, Mrs Olayinka Akomolede, therefore, adjourned the case till March 29 for further hearing and ordered both parties to come to court with their witnesses.