Mrs Victoria Egemonu, a mother of five, may possibly be shown the way out of her matrimonial home should the plea of her husband be honoured by a\u00a0 Lagos-based customary court.<\/p>\n
A 44-year-old civil servant, Mr Vitus Egemonu, on Tuesday pleaded with the Grade \u2018A\u2019 Customary Court, Agege, Lagos, to divorce his marriage of 16 years over his spouse\u2019s alleged disobedience, lack of respect and threat to life.<\/p>\n
The father of five children, aged between six years and 15 years, and who lives at No. 9, Olowo St., Papa Ashafa, Agege, Lagos, told the court that his voice had not been heard in his home in the past 10 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the past 10 years, my wife has been moving from one church to the other, claiming that it was God that sent her to be doing so.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe carries the bible from morning till night and has not obeyed what it says about a wife being submissive to her husband.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has refused to cook at home for the past 15 months, meaning that I have not eaten at home since then, all in the name of church programmes, bible colleges and fellowships,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Egemonu also told the court that his wife, Victoria, had fought with almost all the tenants in their house, all in the name that God told her that they were all witches and wizards.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a bachelor when I rented the house we are now. I have not fought with anyone in the house, until my wife came in.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe always fights with our landlady and calls her a witch. My wife told the woman that she used her daughter\u2019s foetus for money; now we have been given a quit notice to move out.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe brainwashed my daughter such that the girl looked straight in my eyes and said the Lord told her that this year will be a year of joblessness for me,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Egemonu also told the court that his wife said God told her that she should not be celebrating Christmas or put on any red clothes.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince then, she doesn\u2019t cook during Christmas. For the past 10 years, my wife has attended up to 20 churches all in the name of God said this, God said that.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe told my friend that she will prefer to divorce me than to change her ways of life because, according to her, it is God that is at work in her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe doesn\u2019t want to work; she told me that God told her not to work and that if I try to set her up, the business will crumble,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Egemonu is praying the court for a divorce, as well as the custody of their five children.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will commit suicide, if the court doesn\u2019t divorce us,\u2019\u2019 he declared in court.<\/p>\n
However, the respondent, 39-year-old Victoria, told the court that she still loved her husband and that she was not ready to divorce him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a prophet and a pastor called by God to work for him, so the problem with my husband and I started when I became born-again.<\/p>\n
\u201cThough we both attended the Catholic Church before I became a child of God, but God doesn\u2019t want me there again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just left the Redeemed Church and I don\u2019t know the next church God will ask me to go to again; God told me not to celebrate Christmas and that I should not put on white clothes and I am obeying him.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy husband doesn\u2019t sleep at home, yet I have never fought him over that, but I know the reason for this trouble is because I am a prophet of God,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The Court President, Mr Emmanuel Sokunle, told the woman to complement her pastoral work with some domestic work and to continue to pray to God to change her husband\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince both of you are still staying in the same house, I want you to maintain the peace and I want the husband to still provide for the family as before,\u201d Sokunle said.<\/p>\n
He, then, adjourned the case till June 4, for continuation of hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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