Debby Omo, PerSecondNews
A 33-year-old trader, Adeniyi Ajofoyinbo, on Thursday held a Lagos courtroom spell-bound when he said the devil pushed him to rape his wife’s sister.
“I don’t know what pushed me to where my wife’s sister was sleeping, I didn’t have any intention of raping her, but the devil pushed me, I’m sorry, I know I have made a mistake,” he told an Igando Customary Court in a suburb of Lagos.
He made the revelation while responding to a suit filed by his wife, Elizabeth, accusing him of infidelity.
The respondent said after the momentary pleasure: “it was the devil’s handiwork.’’
The husband in turn accused his wife of infidelity, claiming that she is currently pregnant for her lover.
“My wife, who is accusing me of infidelity, is currently pregnant for her man friend and she had packed out of her matrimonial home with our children.”
The respondent said that his wife used to disturb him with her constant night prayers.
“Elizabeth is a prayer warrior, she always disturbs my sleep at night with her frequent prayers,” he said.
The petitioner, Elizabeth, 33, a food vendor, had sought the dissolution of her seven-year-old marriage because her husband raped her sister right in their matrimonial home.
“My husband raped my sister when I went for a night vigil. When I returned, my sister told me that my husband, who had been making advances toward her, succeeded in raping her.
“When I confronted my husband, he admitted raping my sister, but attributed his action to the devil’s handiwork,” she told the court.
The mother of two said her husband was always threatening to kill her and that he always beat her with dangerous weapons.
She said: “My husband is a wife beater, he is in the habit of beating me on the slightest provocation.
“He had stabbed me with bottles and knives on several occasions that led to bleeding.
“He started beating and stabbing me from the first day of our living together and I am afraid he may stab me to death one day.”
The pregnant petitioner begged the court to end the marriage and that she was no longer interested and that her life was not secure with him.
After listening to the estranged couple, the court’s president, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, adjourned the case to June 2 for judgment.
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