Man wants to commit suicide for being denied sex.

A driver with a bank, Anthony Obi, has said he would commit suicide if his plea for divorce was denied by the court.

Obi had pleaded with the Grade A Customary Court, Somolu, Lagos, to dissolve his eight-year-old marriage because his wife was starving him of sex.

The petitioner told the court that his wife, Ukamaka a housewife, often denied him sex since they got married in 2002.

He said though he did not suspect his wife of extra marital affairs, she had not been taking care of him and their two children aged five years and nine months.

Obi claimed that he never had a sexual affair before marriage or extramarital affair after he married Ukamaka.

Josephine 0sae, counsel to both parties said all her efforts to reconcile the estranged couple proved abortive and therefore urged the court to dissolve the marriage.

However, the respondent, Ukamaka, told the court that she would continue to deny her husband sex until he empowered her, saying she was fed up with being a housewife.

The Court President, Modupe Bajulaiye, reprimanded the petitioner for saying he would commit suicide because of sex.

Bajulaiye, adjourned the case till August 9 for further hearing but advised the petitioner to allow both families to intervene.