A 30-year-old nurse, Ruth Ilori, on Friday asked a Grade 1 Customary Court in Abeokuta to dissolve her five-years-old marriage on grounds of neglect and abuse.
Ruth told the court how her enstraged husband, Peters Ilori, neglected her and the two children aged four and two, products of the marriage.
She said her husband packed out of their matrimonial home at Kuto, in Abeokuta, to an unknown place since February.
She told the court that Ilori instructed her to pay a visit to his people in Sagamu, and that on her return, she discovered that Ilori had left the house with all their belongings.
The complainant also said all her effort to bring the situation under control was not successful.
She said she had pleaded with Ilori's family members to intervene on the matter but nothing had come out of it.
While alleging that Ilori beat her on daily basis, she described him as an irresponsible husband.
Ruth claimed that she had for sometime now been bearing the responsibilities of her children’s education and upkeep alone.
She said all these made her to seek for the dissolution of the marriage, but pleaded with the court to mandate Ilori to pay the children’s tuition fees.
Ilori, a 40-year-old civil servant, did not object to the dissolution, saying he was also tired of the marriage.
He, however, pleaded with the court to mandate Ruth to allow him have access to the children whenever he wished.
Ilori pledged to be paying N2,500 monthly for the children’s education and upkeep.
He said he had four other children from two other wives to look after and so might not be able to pay more than that.
The President of the court, Christianah Olaleye, said it was obvious that love no longer existed between the estranged couple.
Olaleye ordered Ilori to pay N3,000 monthly to the Court Registrar for the children’s education and upkeep.
She, however, dissolved the union and ordered the two parties to maintain the peace.
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