A 67-year-old engineer, Olawale Jayeola, yesterday told an Igando customary court in Lagos hat his wife, Olatayo, was fond of punching him as if he were punching a bag, beating him like a baby.
In his words Jayeola said “I have scars all over my body as proofs of her abuse. I live every minute of my life in fear. Save me from the cruel hands of my wife. I have suffered so much in silence; any time we have misunderstanding, she would beat the hell out of me.
According to him, the marriage has been turbulent and fraught with fights and quarrels since 2013. He said: I have not been at peace since I got married to my wife, she has been so quarrelsome. I brought her to court in 2013 for the dissolution of the marriage, but she begged me and promised to change. The court asked her to write an undertaking not to beat me again, which she wrote and the case was put on sine die stage. She has refused to change. Instead, her behaviour towards me has been hostile and the beating continued unabated.”
Jayeola further told the Court that his wife lacked care for him and was not giving him food and that she also threatened to burn his two cars.
Engineer Jayeola begged the Court under the ruler ship of Mr.Adegboyega Omilola to end the loveless marriage before the Woman terminates his life
The defendant, Olatayo, while denying all the allegations said “I never beat my husband neither did I threaten to burn his cars,”
The mother of three disclosed that she was not a troublemaker, but peaceful, noting that she was taking good care of her husband. She pleaded passionately with the court not to dissolve the marriage, saying she was still in love with her husband.
The Court President who adjourned the case to July 25 for further hearing ordered the couple to come along with three members of their families each for Alternative Dispute Resolution
