16th November, 2015
Cyriacus Izuekwe
A Lagos customary court has dissolved a marriage between a couple, Mrs Sarah Omidiji and her husband, Julius Omidiji after the man incurred heavy debts and ran away from their matrimonial home without informing his wife in Lagos State Western Nigeria.
As creditors besieged their home demanding the debt from Sarah, she went and filed a suit at Ejigbo customary court, Lagos, seeking for the dissolution of their five years marriage to have peace.
The embittered woman said they got married in 2011 after several years of courtship.
She said when she got married to Julius, she discovered that he was jobless and was living a fake life but pretended that all was well.
She said the matter became worse after he incurred heavy debts and ran away, abandoned her for three years without communicating to her his whereabout.
She said she did not know her husband was owing debts that ran into millions of naira, noting that, he did not tell her before he left the house.
She said creditors started threatening her to produce her husband who did not trust her enough to reveal the situation before he escaped.
Sarah who said the marriage was yet to produce any issue, asked the court to dissolve the marriage because she no longer loves or trusted Julius because of his character.
“My lord, when my husband abandoned our matrimonial home without informing me, I searched the house to see if he left any note, I only saw a long list of those he was owing, I became afraid,” she said.
She said the creditors were after her demanding for him or their money, accusing her of hiding him from them.
The president of the court Mrs Bolajoke noted that the matter had suffered several adjournments before the judgment because the husband refused to come to court.
She observed that the marriage have broken down irretrievably and consequently dissolved the marriage.
She said parties involved in the marriage are now free marry any of partner their choice.