My hubby has turned our matrimonial home to brothel, estranged wife tells court

Delighted that her 15-year-old loveless marriage was dissolved, Mrs Balikis Oki, yesterday painted her estranged husband’s notoriety for unbridled promiscuity at a Lagos court.

“My husband always brings his girlfriends home to sleep with overnight and would ask me to step aside,” the 33-year-old trader told an Igando Customary Court in a Lagos suburb.

She said her husband, Oluwashina Oki of 15 years lacked respect for their matrimonial home as he turned it into a brothel.

“My husband is fond of bringing his lover home for the night and he will ask me to excuse them, and if I refuse, he will force me out of the house.”

The petitioner also accused her husband of abusing and mocking her father because he is physically challenged.

Bilikis said: “Whenever we have a misunderstanding,  he will abuse and mock my father who is physically  challenged and that hurts me to my bones.

“My husband is fetish and diabolical; he always comes home with different charms.Sometimes he gives me some substance to use which I always collect from him but will not use.

“He is an irresponsible husband and father. I pay the children’s school fees and other bills.”

The mother of three said that Oluwashina always embarrassed her and called her derogatory names in public.

She pleaded with the court to terminate the union as she could no longer cope with the man and that the love she once had for her husband had faded.

Oki denied all the allegations and instead accused Balikis of infidelity.

“Balikis is also cheating on me.She receives calls from her boyfriend on  a daily basis.”

The 41-year-old businessman said that his wife became wayward in 2006 and that she started moving with women of “questionable characters”.

“I have warned her several times to stop mingling with them but she refused,” he said, and urged the court not to grant his wife’s wish for the dissolution of marriage.

“I still love her,” he claimed.

Delivering his ruling, the court’s President, Mr. Akin Akinniyi, said the petitioner was adamant in spite of mediation from the court and family intervention.