A housewife Chiwendu Nwadi, has dragged her husband Emeka Nwadi to court who she alleged deliberately poisoned her drink, which led to her losing her pregnancy, and therefore, prayed the court to dissolve their 13-year marriage.
Penpushing reports that the woman filed the petition through her lawyer, Moses Ibe, before a Customary Court sitting in Ushafa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, emphasizing that the union has broken down irretrievably.
The petitioner told the court that the union, consummated in 2011 under the Native Law and Custom, as well as the exchange of marital vows in a church, has produced three children, ages 12, 11 and 2 alleging that the husband, is a man of unimaginable violence and cruelty, fetish, a serial wife beater and adulterer.
‘After I had my second child, the respondent said he was no longer interested in having other children. My mother-in-law, however, opposed that decision and continued to put pressure on us to have other children’, she said.
“Seven years down the lane, I became pregnant. When I informed my husband about it, he poisoned my drink, which made me to lose that pregnancy. In 2021, I became pregnant again, but kept it to myself because of my last experience’, the woman stated.
“When the pregnancy was 2 months, it was during the COVID 19 and my husband’s brother Mr Uche Nwadi, arranged for the whole family to be vaccinated. I had to excuse myself from the vaccination, by informing my husband that I was pregnant’, she added.
“When my husband saw the result of the test, he denied being responsible for the pregnancy and accused me of adultery. He sent me out of my matrimonial home to my parent’s house. He parked out my belongings thereafter, and dumped them in our house,” she said.
Penpushing further reports that she informed the court that she was in her parent’s house for three months when some elders from the husband’s village got information about the incident, and said the action they took was against Igbo tradition.
The petitioner added that after the elders had admonished her husband’s family against the action, he sent his relatives to come to her family house for atonement, explaining that the case was resolved on the agreement that a DNA would be conducted after she had given birth.
Penpushing also reports that the complainant told the court that after giving birth, the child was a carbon copy of the husband, and that was the last she heard of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), adding that her husband was in the habit of denying her pregnancies.
The petitioner alleged that her husband is a chronic womaniser who keeps late nights and had turned her to a punching bag, as well as diabolical adding that he had once told her on September 17, 2024 that things were not working well for him any longer and he had visited about five different spiritualists who told him that her mother and herself were responsible for his travails.
‘My husband is always in the habit of denying my pregnancies, and will always threaten to conduct DNA. But, since the children always look like him, he then accepts them as his. He told me he had visited about five different spiritualists who informed him that my mother and I were responsible for his travails. He said that we took his photograph to Umudike in Abia State, where his destiny is tied down. He equally accused me of adultery and lesbianism,” she said.
Penpushing reports that the woman in the petition said on September 19, 2024, while she was in her shop at Dutse Central Market, Abuja, her husband in company of some men came to chase her out, parked all her goods, locked up the shop with another key and threatened to kill her if she came back to the house.
‘I have no access to my children and made several attempts to see them at their school, Amazing Kids Academy, Kubwa, Abuja to no avail. The school management told me my husband served them a court order, restraining me from having any communication with my children’, she said
Penpushing further reports that the woman equally in the petition said that about a week after she was thrown out, the husband brought in a 24-year-old lady who now occupied the house, and had been mal-treating her children.
‘The welfare of my three children has deteriorated and attempts to resolve the issue, including my parents leading a delegation to my husband’s brother, failed. I have also suffered psychological, emotional and physical abuse while the marriage lasted and still suffer same trauma because my children are still in the custody of my husband,’’ she said.
Penpushing also reports that she, therefore, urged the court to dissolve the marriage, grant custody of the three children to her and restrain the husband from using thugs or any security agents to harass her, and equally prayed the court to compel the respondent to provide suitable accommodation for her and the three children and to continue paying the school fees of the children to the university level.
The woman in the petition in same vein sought and pray the court to order the respondent to pay the sum of N1 million monthly to her, for feeding, medicals and maintenance of the three children of the marriage and to order her husband to return her personal belongings, clothing and the wares and items he carted away from her shop at Dutse Market.
Penpushing reports that as at the time the petition was filed the respondent was yet to enter an appearance or file a defence to the petition, while the case has been fixed for further mention on November 5,2024 because of the absence of the respondent (the husband).
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