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A 44-year-old woman, Susan Lijadu, on Tuesday told a Lagos Island Customary Court, Lagos, that her husband, Folarin forced her to make a covenant with him. Folarin, 47, had in April urged the court to dissolve his 20-year-old marriage for alleged lack of trust and love.
Susan, a mother of four, told the court that their marital problem started in year 2000 when her husband became blind as a result of a motor accident. She said that he became suicidal, aggressive and very jealous and in 2013 he forced her into making a covenant with him.
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“Since he became blind everything about him has changed. He once tried to kill himself but I pleaded with him and assured him that everything will be well. “He also became aggressive toward me and one day he nearly strangled me to death and if not for our neighbours who came to my rescue I would have been dead. “Three years ago he ordered me to buy a cockerel, three colanuts, bittercola and alligator pepper.
I was stripped naked in the presence of one herbalist from Ondo State. “I was told to swear that no other man will ever see my nakedness or have any sexual intercourse with me except my husband.
“All the items were buried in a hole dug in front of our room,’’ she said. Susan told the court that her husband, who did not make the same covenant with her, had now impregnated one of their tenants and wants to divorce her. “My husband wants to dump me after putting an embargo on me,’’ she said
