News: 75-year-old man battery by wife, wants divorce | Daillybook

Illustration: A woman beating her
husband. A 75-year-old man, Fashola Fakorede,
on Thursday urged a Customary Court,
in the Lagos suburb of Igando, to
dissolve his marriage to his wife, Funke,
49, for allegedly beating him.
Fakorede told the Nigerian customary
court that his wife had turned him into
a punching bag and also inflicted
injuries over his body.
"My wife wants to kill me. She beats me
every day. I don't want to die now, save
my life. My wife always beats me if I
asked of food or anything. She has
turned it to a routine affair, all the scars
on my body are as a result of her
battery on me,'' he said.
Fakorede said his wife no longer takes
care of him, adding, "she goes out and
returns home at will without seeking
my permission. She can go out for days
and if I queried her, she will hit me with
any dangerous weapon she can lay her
hand on at that moment. "And my daughter is also taking her
footstep, she brings home different
men and my wife will not query her. So,
I sent her away from my house,'' he
said.
He urged the court to dissolve the
union, saying that he was no longer in
love with her and was tired of the
regular battery, which had led to his ill-
health.
"I am tired of the constant beating, I am
afraid this woman will kill me one day. I
am not ready to die now,'' he pleaded.
Funke, a trader, denied the allegations,
saying that she did not beat her
husband and has always taken good
care of him and respected him.
The mother of three, however, accused
her husband of denying the children the
right to go to school.
"My husband is unable to send any of
his three children to secondary school.
My husband is not responsible. None of
our children went to secondary school,
all of them stopped schooling at
primary school," she said.
She said her husband had disowned his
daughter, and urged the court not to
grant his wish as she still loved him.
"I have no anywhere to go as no man
will want to marry me at my age,'' '
The judge, Mr R. I. Adeyeri, adjourned
the case till 25 November for further
hearing.
source: http://pmnewsnigeria.com/