Return My ₦1.2m Bride Price Before IDivorce You, Policeman Tells Wife

Return my ₦1.2m bride price before I divorce
you, policeman tells wife…
A policeman, Anthony Ibemere, has told an
Igando Customary Court in Lagos, Lagos
State, that his wife should return the ₦1.2
million bride price if she insisted on divorce.
Thirty-eight-year-old Anthony was
responding to a divorce suit filed by Uloma,
his wife of four years, who accused him of
battery.
“Uloma should return the money I gave her
parents during our traditional marriage if she
insists on the dissolution of our four-year-
old marriage,” he told the court.
He accused his wife of hiding her marital
status by telling people she was single.
“She joined a group of single ladies in her
church. I went to the church with our
wedding pictures as a proof that she’s
married which led to her suspension,” he
said.
Anthony added that Uloma had abandoned
their matrimonial home since November 24,
2012, when he informed the church of her
marital status.
He, therefore, pleaded with the court not to
grant his wife’s request of divorce, saying he
still loves her.
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‘He always had sex with me by force’
…….Uloma
On her part, 27-year-old Uloma, a factory
worker, told the court that Anthony turned her

into a punching bag mostly when he was
drunk.
“My husband is a drunkard. Whenever he
comes home drunk and wants to make love
to me, I always refuse him. I want him to
make love to me when he’s in his right
senses.
“And when I refuse him, he will make love to
me by force,’’ she said.
The petitioner alleged that her husband
always embarrassed her in public by calling
her ‘a prostitute and barren tree.’
She also accused him of threatening her life
and giving out her phone number to
unknown persons, who were always calling
and warning her not to proceed with the
divorce suit or else, she would be killed.
She begged the court to separate them,
saying she was tired of the marriage.
The case was adjourned till April 16, 2014.
Source: Nigerian Tribune