A 55-year-old retiree, Emmanuel Osuya, shocked a court yesterday when he claimed that his wife of 32 years beats him up at “the slightest provocation.”
But Mrs Abigael Osuya (50) denied the allegation, saying: “it is my husband that always beat me up”.
Osuya, a retired civil servant is seeking the dissolution of his marriage at an Igando Customary Court in Lagos for alleged battering by his wife.
His wife, he said, had turned him into a punch-bag.
Osuya said he was afraid his wife may kill him one day.
“My wife wants to kill me; she beats me almost every day with dangerous weapons. On three occasions, she broke my leg, preventing me from going out for days,’’ he said.
Osuya also accused his wife of turning his children against him, saying: “Abigael succeeded in creating enmity between me and my children, she tells them false and damaging stories about me in order to hate me.
“So my children only care for her by sending her money and other items every month, without extending their love to me, they always ignore me as if I do not exist.’’
The petitioner described his wife as a thief, claiming: “I cannot keep money at home again because my wife will steal it.
“She acted as if she is not always satisfied with the money I give her in spite of the fact that my children always send her money every month.”
Osuya said Abigael also starves him.
He appealed to the court to dissolve the marriage, saying: “I am no longer interested in the marriage, I don’t want to die now, more so that I am out of love’’.
Denying the allegation, Mrs Osuya said since they married she had never beaten her husband.
She said: “It is my husband that always beat me at any slight provocation, I have never beaten him.
The mother of five said she had never stolen her husband’s money, explaining that she cooks for him wherever he gave her money.
She asked the court not to grant her husband’s prayer.
“I am still in love with him,’’ she said.
The Court President, Hakeem Oyekan, adjourned the case till April 30.
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