A 64-year-old man, Mustafa Ariori, yesterday, urged a Lagos
Island Customary Court to dissolve his 32-year-old marriage to his 60-year-old
wife, Tawakalitu, over sexual starvation. Ariori, who runs a rental service,
told the court that his wife had stopped preparing meals for him for over six
years and
had denied him sex for three years.
He said that the problem started
when his wife followed one of his friends to Osogbo for his father’s burial for
six days. Ariori said: “My wife started misbehaving after she followed my
friend to Osogbo in 2010.
When she came back and I attempted to make love to
her but she refused. “Our two children, Yetude, 31 and Bilikisu, 28, who are
now married and my club members had, on different occasions, tried to mediate
without success.
” File: Divorce His wife, a businesswoman, told the court that
she loved her husband and she had been the breadwinner of the home. She said:
“I feed and clothe my husband. When I had money to spend, there was no problem
and complaints.
I usually travel to Dubai to buy male and female wears; my
business started dwindling because there was no money.
“This whole problem
started because I have no money to spend on my husband again. His friend that I
followed to Osogbo told me that his club members has found him a woman much younger
than me, who he is presently dating.
” Tawakalitu said that she had been denying
her husband sex because of menopause. After listening to both parties, the
President of the Court, Mr. Awos Awosola, adjourned the case till July 12 for
further hearing.
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