A
38-year-old meat seller, Mr. Dauda Yusuf, had earlier pleaded with the
Agege Customary Court to dissolve his union with his wife, Mrs. Saidat
Yusuf.
His reason for the divorce petition was
given as constant fighting, but both parties have always been absent in
court until Tuesday.
The couple has been living together for five years and blessed with a child.
Yusuf told the court that he was fed up
with the marriage and didn’t want anything to do with his wife again
because of her constant fighting.
But the 28-year-old wife said she was
not ready to divorce her husband because she had a covenant with him
that any attempt to divorce him would portend a danger to her life.
“My husband and I had an agreement with
the Ifa oracle, which he took me to. During the covenant, a string of
beads was tied round my waste as a covenant that will prevent me from
having any relationship with any other man.
“If the covenant is not broken or
deactivated, it will be dangerous for me to marry any other man after
divorcing my present husband,” she said.
The husband had first denied entering into any covenant with the wife and even swore with the Holy Quaran.
But after a lot of interrogation by the
judges, he confessed that they entered into the covenant but he bowed
out of the covenant because Saidat was not the woman Ifa married for
him.
“Saidat is not the woman the Ifa oracle chose for me; besides, she has already removed the beads,” he said.
When the wife was asked whether she
actually removed the beads or not, she said she removed it but people
told her that the covenant must still be deactivated by her husband to
prevent any future danger.
She said she untied the beads in anger after one of her fights with her husband.
The court president, Mr. Emmanuel
Sokunle, pleaded with the man to take his wife to where the covenant was
made so that it could be broken d the woman would be free.
They both agreed to deactivate the covenant on July 26 and afterwards, Sokunle adjourned the case till August 1, 2013.
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