A 42-year-old mother of four, Joy Obioma, on
Thursday urged an Igando Customary Court in
Lagos to dissolve her 22-year-old marriage for what
she called her husband’s lunacy.
“My husband is not well, sometimes he can just go
Unclad and start breaking bottles, looking for who to
stab and everybody in the compound will be running
for their dear lives.
“There was a day he ran out of the house with a
cutlass looking for somebody’s hand to amputate,’’
she told the court.
Vanguard reports that the woman had filed a suit
seeking the dissolution of her marriage to Godfrey,
citing his lunatic acts.
Recalling her husband’s actions, she said: “One day
he (the husband) threatened to pour acid on me to
disfigure me and make me less attractive.
“He also threatened to burn down the house and
run away.”
The petitioner said she could not continue to live
with her husband for the alleged signs of madness.
Joy who alleged that her husband was a hemp
smoker, said: “This is the first thing he takes every
morning before food.
“Indian hemp is my husband’s first meal before
breakfast, he takes it around 5.00 a.m., and after
taking it, he will start to misbehave and pounce on
me.
“I have been paying our rent, the children’s school
fees with the support of my parents and siblings.’’
But the hubby, 49-year-old Godfrey, who denied the
allegations, said nobody could separate him and his
wife.
“My wife and I are made from `heaven’ to be
husband and wife, nobody can separate us,” he told
the court.”
He said he could not kill his wife but admitted
threatening her with some dangerous weapons.
Godfrey pleaded with the court to save the
marriage, saying “I am still very much in love with
her.’’
The President of the court, Mr Hakeem Oyekan,
fixed judgment in the case for July 22.
