Woman seeks divorce over alleged sexual molestation by husband

A pharmacist, Nafisat Afeez, on Monday told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her nine-year-old union with her husband, Rasheed Afeez on grounds of alleged sexual molestation.

Nafisat made the submission while countering her husband’s allegation of sexual starvation and infidelity levelled against her.

The mother of two said that she consented to the divorce suit to prevent continuous sexual molestation from her husband.

“My lord, Afeez has completely turned me into a sex object because he keeps requesting sex from me without minding its overall effects on both of us.

“He doesn’t bother about my emotional well-being, but his own selfish satisfaction.

“If I fail to co-operate, Afeez will force me into submission through battery.

“On a certain night, Afeez requested sex, despite quarrelling with me for some time.

“I turned down his advances, he attempted to force me, but I escaped to the kitchen to get a knife to defend myself,” Nafisat said.

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She added that her husband was grossly irresponsible not only to her but also to the children.

“Furthermore, I was afraid of producing more children with sickle cell disorder because one of our two children is an SS by genotype.

“Afeez and I are AS by genotype and he doesn’t buy the required medication for the sick child,” Nafisat said.

She said that the building they currently live in belonged to both of them.

Afeez had earlier told the court that he sustained an injury in his private part when his wife prevented him from performing a conjugal rite with her.

Afeez, an accountant, a primary school teacher and a resident of Soka area in Ibadan, said that he filed the suit because his wife was in the habit of starving him of sex.

“Both Nafisat and I are well informed about our genotype status before we got married.

“All of a sudden, she stopped allowing me to perform my conjugal rite for no reason.

“I don’t think that I should have restricted access to her through condoms because she is my wife.

“Also, I noticed that Nafisat went for family planning without my consent. Worst still, she has been dressing provocatively and listening to worldly music as against our religious beliefs.

“In fact, Nafisat now sleeps about in hotels,” Afeez said.

The petitioner tendered all the documents showing that the house in which he lived with his wife belonged to him and his mother.

The court’s President, Mrs S.M. Akintayo adjourned the case until Sept. 12 for ruling on the objection raised by Afeez against documents tendered by Nafisat in the case.

(NAN)