Woman Conceals Children’s Father

A housewife, Seinab Adebayo, on Tuesday
told an Ijebu-Ode Customary Court in Ogun that she will not disclose the
biological father of her four children.

Adebayo explained that her inability to
disclose the biological father of the children was because of the oath she took
with her husband, Adewale, adding that until she was released from the oath she
would not speak.

Adebayo had on March 21, told the court
that her husband was not the biological father of their three children and was
not responsible for the pregnancy she was carrying then.

She said that she was made to swear to an
oath 12 years ago to keep the secret that her husband was not the biological
father of the children, adding that it was a deal between the two of them.

Adebayo told the court that she could not
reveal the details of the secret until the husband brought the oracle with
which they swore the oath to court and release her from it.

The wife, who has since given birth to
another baby girl, insisted in court that her husband was not the biological
father of the children.

She said that she would let the secret out
if the court could allow her husband bring the oracle with which they swore to
the oath to court.

The husband, Adewale, who is the plaintiff,
had dragged his wife to court for packing out of the house with the three
children without his consent.

He urged the court to order his wife to
return his three children back to him.

But the wife insisted that she packed out
of the house because her husband, whom she married 12 years ago, was not the
biological father of the children and the pregnancy.

The court granted her prayers by asking her
husband to bring the oracle to court, but on resumption of the hearing on
Tuesday the court said the oracle could not be allowed into the court.

Mr Olatunde Kanimodo, the court’s
President, said that after wide consultation, the court found that the oracle
could not be allowed in court because both the law and the tradition would not
allow it.

Kanimodo said that the court did not have the
power to unbind the oath, but promised that the court would do all the
necessary things for justice to be done.

Adewale, the husband, who told the court
that the oracle was in his car outside the court premises, claimed that he was
the biological father of the children.

The court, however, ordered the wife to
bring the four children to court on the next adjournment day and to also bring
her father to the court to shed more light on the matter.

The case was adjourned till May 28.