Lagos man said he fled home as wife tried to kill after being impregnated by his neighbours

LAGOS landlord Musiliu Yusuf has told an Igando Customary Court how he had to flee from four different houses he built because he feared his wife would kill him after she got impregnated by one of his neighbours.

 

Testifying before the court yesterday, Mr Yusuf, 50, begged that it dissolve his marriage to 39-year-old teacher Hassana, over irreconcilable differences. Mr Yusuf had told the court that his wife was impregnated by one of her lovers in their matrimonial home and she was in the habit of beating him at the slightest provocation, forcing him to pack out.

 

Mr Yusuf said: “My wife committed adultery, she got pregnant for one of her lovers in our matrimonial home. My wife is promiscuous, my fellow landlords are her boyfriends and she got pregnant for one of them and they mock and make jest of me whenever they see me.

 

“I stopped making love to her in June 2014 due to her infidelity and in 2015, she told me she was pregnant. I rejected the pregnancy and even after delivery of the baby, I refused to care for her because the baby is not mine."

 

He then tendered the list of hotels visited by his wife and some of her lovers as exhibits. According to Mr Yusuf, he packed out from houses he built on four different occasions, because of fear for his life as Hassana always beat him at any slight provocation.

 

Mr Yusuf said contrary to his wife’s claims that they both built the house and school, he never collected any money from her. He then  presented to the court as exhibits, all the title documents of the properties which were in his name.

 

Hassana, who filed the suit to end her 13-year-old marriage, said her husband threatened to kill her in order to inherit what they both acquired. She added that her husband was also in the habit of accusing her of infidelity.

 

“He threatened to kill me so that he can take over what we both laboured for and he always boasts that nobody will question him if he kills me. We jointly bought a coaster bus and two plots of land and we used a plot to build a house, the other a school.

 

“My husband is suspicious of my moves. Every man I talk to is my boyfriend and he has no trust whatsoever in me,” Hassana said.

 

Delivering his judgment, the court president Adegboyega Omilola, said it appeared that the estranged couple were tired of the marriage and all efforts to reconcile both parties had failed. He added that since both parties consented to the dissolution of their marriage, the court has no choice but to dissolve the marriage.