According to report by Punch Metro, the wife of a pastor, Mrs.
Uzoamaka Ibeneme, on Friday, was exposed by her husband and lost her
21-year-old marriage, when an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, dissolved
the union on grounds of adultery....
Mr. Akin Akinniyi, the court president, who delivered the judgment,
said the petitioner, Pastor Joshua Ibeneme was adamant in spite of the
mediation by the court and family intervention.
“Since the petitioner insisted on divorce after several
interventions, the court is, therefore, left with no option but to grant
him his wish and pronounce the union dissolved.
“The court hereby pronounces the marriage between Pastor Joshua Ibeneme and Mrs. Uzoamaka Ibeneme dissolved today.
“Both of you will henceforth cease to be husband and wife, each of you should go on his or her separate ways unmolested.
“The court wishes both of you well in your future endeavour.
“Any squabble between both you from now on shall be treated as
criminal and any violation of this judgment will be regarded as contempt
of court and will attract imprisonment without an option of fine,” Akinniyi ruled.
Earlier, the petitioner, a 53-year-old pastor, Joshua Ibeneme, had
approached the court to end his 21-year marriage to his wife, Uzoamaka,
who he said, was messing around with his church members.
“My wife had s*xual affair with two of my church members, a
deacon and a bishop. Both of them were telling my other members that
they slept with my wife because she enticed them.
“Whenever I return from a trip, my last born always tells me
that men came to pick and drop my wife. Even God told me to divorce her
else she will destroy my ministry,” he claimed.
The petitioner said that his wife denied him sex for five years.
“My wife starved me of s*x for more than five years; whenever I
want to sleep with her, she would give one excuse or the other and in
fact, she has moved out of my room to a separate room.
“But she gives it to my members freely,” the pastor said.
The pastor said that his wife was always mocking and embarrassing
him in public places, telling people about his sexual performance.
He said that Uzoamaka always accused him of having affairs with any female member, who came to the house for counselling.
“She accused them of dating me and also went to their houses to
fight them. Her behaviour has chased many members away from my church,” he said.
He begged the court to divorce the loveless union, claiming he was no longer in love with his wife.
However, the respondent, Uzoamaka, denied having s*x with their church members but accused her husband of infidelity.
“It is women that cause our frequent fighting, they are the problem in our home and my husband’s lust for them is very high.
“I never slept with the two men, who claimed that they slept
with me, they just wanted to tarnish my image, my husband is dating the
wife of the deacon.”
According to her, the pastor calls her derogatory names in the public such as “prostitute”.
The 45-year-old teacher said that she starved her husband of s*x
because she hated s*x, adding that she married him because she wanted
children.
The mother of three, however, begged the court not to grant her
husband’s wish for dissolution of the marriage as she was still in love
with him.
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