An Area Court in Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, on Wednesday, dissolved a 25-year-old marriage between one Ramat Ibrahim and her estranged husband, Ibrahim Ayinla, on account of lack of love.
The Presiding Judge, Hammad Ajumonbi while delivering judgment, said the statement by the petitioner, Ramat, indicated that all efforts to reconcile the couple had failed and dissolved the marriage, which was conducted in the Islamic religion.
The court said the first and second children were adults and as such, had the right to choose who they wanted to live with.
The judge also directed the respondent to take full responsibility for the children’s feeding, school fees, and medical expenses, to the best of his ability.
He also ordered that the petitioner be allowed to pack all her belongings.
The petitioner had earlier informed the court that she was scared of going to the respondent’s house, alleging that he was fetish and impartial with his other wife, hence her insistence on divorce.
Ramat, said she did not have a job and no visible means of livelihood to cater to the children and requested that the children remain with the respondent for now.
The respondent told the court that he agreed with the petitioner’s decision on divorce and did not want to ever see the wife in his house again, to avoid further allegations.
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It is well with them
ReplyDeletevery possible occurance!!
ReplyDeleteNot surprising at all...Even our parents marriages that we envy and we often compare with the present day marriages are not left out from the fractures and cracks of love gone sour...The difference is the endurance level of then and now plus divorce was heavily frowned upon then and you were mostly treated as an outcast...
ReplyDeleteSo what they do is once the kids are off the nest; it finally dawns on them they had to business marrying their husbands/wives and so they plan and eventually offload their husbands/wives...
It's not new chaa,, alot of marriages collapsed along time ago, na just kids keeping them together! It's well with them
DeleteNa wa o, 25years gone down the drain just like that.
ReplyDelete25 years gone just like that
ReplyDeleteI wish them well
Ummmmmmm
ReplyDelete25yrs of been together and this happen
It is well with them 🙏
So sad 😔
ReplyDeleteLike what could have gone wrong?
ReplyDeleteTo my own opinion most marriages collapse because selfishness. When men fall in love outside their marriage the whole attention is focus on the new love ,the wife and the kids will be seeing another dimension in the house that was once filled with laughter.
ReplyDeleteThe marriage ended after he married another wife
ReplyDeleteThe rest was just wait and see
Well said. No 25 years marriage.
DeleteAbi ooo she can't stand the other woman
DeleteIs better she leaves for her sanity oo
For 25years😠😠😠😠
ReplyDeleteShe still sounds young. I hope she can get connected with a women’s focused NGO and get a place to live, free skills training so she have some way of earning a living. This woman is starting from zero and will have much to learn about how society operates and how to live on her own. I pray the right teachers and guides come her way and she is able to find success and purpose. May God protect and keep her safe.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, 25years ??
ReplyDeleteYou owe it to your maker never to put a pause on your life or cap your destiny. This marriage ended when the man started looking for more but she had no other source of food, shelter or even transport fare for herself, talk less of her children. She stayed till the man couldn't bother to fend for her upkeep and she was also mentally breaking. Even now, she is unable to leave with any child for fear of hunger.
ReplyDeleteThis woman could have started selling sweets and biscuits in a bucket in front of her house 25 years ago and adding zobo, kunu, pap, wara and whatever else with support from relatives, her mosque or even sympathetic inlaws but she settled for the words of a fellow human being instead of heeding the God that gave her capacity. No one would be able to fault a woman selling detergent and gala from behind her husband's gate no matter how backward the family she married into is. Women in purdah are known for making food like eko, kulikuli, the Fulani yoghurt and meat snacks for others to hawk but this lady just stayed for years with no plan? Not good enough.
There are many women who singlehandedly put their children through school, up to university level seeking bits and pieces. I remember watching a short documentary of one such woman years ago who did it by hawking pap (Koko) and I think rice and stew.
You can never satisfy a human being, not to talk of one who is professionally dissatisfied. Had she satisfied God by applying her intellect, she wouldn't have to leave her children exposed to alleged fetish practices.
Men are very unreliable
DeleteThe marriage ended when the man married another wife & started neglecting the woman
ReplyDeleteThe most complex B
Selfish and mean man
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