Babatunde Olaoye, has told Oja Oba/Mapo Court C Customary Court, Mapo, Oyo State, he’s no more interested in his nine-year-old marriage to his wife, Lola Olaoye. According to Babatunde, his wife is disobedient, troublesome and unfaithful to him, thus he asked the court to separate them and grant him custody of their two children.

“My lord, my wife and I can do without many things, but the only thing we can’t do without is fight.

“We don’t just stop at fighting, we feel satisfied only after we might have inflicted injuries on each other.

“We were living in my father’s house early in our marriage, but we had to move out because of my wife’s troublesome nature.  She fought every tenant in the house and turned them against one another.

“She didn’t change even after we moved to a new place. Our neighbours were always complaining of her.

“She once hit a female co-tenant on the head with a heavy stick and she bled. My wife felt unrepentant and refused to apologise even after I told her to do so.

“The woman whom she injured, on seeing that she was adamant, hit her back with the same stick. I had no choice but to pay the medical expenses of the two of them, “the plaintiff told the court.

“She later took to returning home late. Initially she started returning home around 10: 30 pm. I complained but she refused to change. She got worse and started coming back home between 12:00 am and 1:00 am.

“I had no choice but to take up cooking for our children since she wasn’t bothered about their welfare.

“There were times I stayed back in shop to work so as not to disappoint my customers. I later learnt from our neighbours that she always brought her ex husband home and spent the night with him on those days.

“I asked her, but she denied it.

“We later moved to our own house and within few weeks the neighbourhood had known us because we were always fighting.

“We once fought and inflicted deep cuts on each other with the shovel. She moved to her parents’ house after this and was there for nearly eight months.

“After our parents had mediated in our differences, she returned to my place.

“The eldest of our children later told me that while they were in her grandfather’s place, their mother’s ex husband was in the habit of  always sneaking into her mother’s room  late in the night when their grandfather and every other person in the house must had gone to bed.