Lawyers Vow To Challenge Forceful Dissolution Of Marriage

Participants at the 4th Annual Seminar on National Security organised by the Alumi Association of National Defence College in Abuja, yesterday

A legal practitioner in
Rivers  State, Barrister Arthur Ogolo has vowed to challenge a purported court order procured to forcefully evict a house wife, Mrs Kate Igoni Toby, from her matrimonial home by her husband without a court pronouncement on the dissolution of the marriage.
Barr. Ogolo averred that it is only a court of competent jurisdiction that has the powers to dissolve a marriage.
Speaking to journalists in Port Harcourt over the weekend on a purported court order dissolving a 22 years old marriage union when the matter was not heard in any court, said he will challenge the court order in court, adding that a marriage that has lasted for the period of 22 years cannot be dissolved like that.
Mrs Kate Igoni Toby was allegedly ejected out of her matrimonial home by her husband at the Nwugwe road Woji in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.
Mrs Toby told newsmen that her husband forcefully ejected her from their house with the collaboration of a team of mobile men when their marriage has not been dissolved by any court.
The mother of two said husband had approached the customary court in Opobo Town, seeking for the dissolution of their marriage but the court rejected it on the ground of insufficient reasons and ordered him to go back to the house.
She said that rather than come back to the house, her husband later came back with a court order purportedly procured from a magistrate court in Port Harcourt to evict her from the house that both of them had.
Mrs Kate called on the intervention of the government and human right organizations as she had nowhere to go to with her children.