I stopped having sex with my husband after cheating on him, divorce-seeking woman tells court
A married woman, Tabitha Iliya, on Thursday, dragged her husband, Iliya Yaran, to an Upper Customary Court sitting at Daura Road, Kaduna, praying for divorce over lack of love.
The woman, a mother of six children, told the court that her husband failed to provide for the family, a situation that made her to cheat with another man to take care of her daughter’s medication.
She told the court that since her intimacy with the other man, she stopped sleeping with her husband, who usually comes home after three months due to the nature of his work.
She said that she had also suffered verbal and physical abuse from her husband, which resulted to her packing out of her matrimonial house for more than a year now.
The divorce-seeking woman said “one day, my friend, Esther, asked me to accompany her to a bar, where she was going to meet someone, and I followed her. While sitting and talking, my husband and his friend came to the bar, and he started calling me a prostitute and even called one of our sons on phone to come and see what I was doing.”
She said that she left the husband’s house three days after the incident due to constant insults
and demand to pack out of his house.
She stated that thereafter she rented a room in another area and her husband kept threatening her and even tried to poison her diabolically.
She, therefore, prayed the court to dissolve the marriage for her to have peace of mind.
The Judge, Patience Musa, while cross examining the woman, asked if she had contracted HIV and she answered in the affirmative.
Asked where she got it from, she said it was from God, adding that she no longer loves her husband.
The judge then adjourned the matter until September 29 for defence hearing.
However, shortly after the adjournment, the husband threatened his wife in court, saying she was still his wife and if he catches her with another man again, she would have herself to blame.
The judge quickly intervened and said the court had recorded his threat, adding that if anything happened to the wife, he would be held responsible.
(NAN)
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