Girl Joins Mother To Beat Stepfather

For disturbing her mother, a stepdaughter has joined her mother to beat her stepfather in public and tore his underwear.

Narrating how he was beaten in public before an Agege Grade ’A’ Customary Court, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, a diesel supplier, Mr. Teslim Adeleke said his divorce-seeking wife, Mrs. Ajoke Adeleke once joined his stepdaughter to beat him in public.

He appealed to the court not to believe everything his wife wrote in her petition, adding that he did everything to prevent the matter coming to court but all to no avail.

Narrating how he was digraced in public by his wife and stepdaughter, Teslim said: “I was once attacked by one-chance robbers on my way home from Badagry. My handsets and N6,000 were collected from me. I phoned my wife who was living at Iyana-Oba to tell her of the incident and seek assistance. She refused to pick my call.

“After trying several times, I got annoyed and went to her house but on seeing me she asked me to get out. I refused and told her to give me my children.

“She started abusing me and my stepdaughter also came out. Both of them started calling me names.

“I told my stepdaughter that I was the one who brought her up and that If I was bad as she is now claiming I would not have allowed her into my house.

“Both of them pushed me out to the street, tore my clothes and disgraced me.” Ajoke, in her petition before the court accused her husband of not caring for her and constant beating.

“My husband will go to Papa-Ashafa in Agege and get drunk. When he comes back, he will start fumbling.

”He has many girlfriends on whom he squanders all his money. Sometime, he will bring some of the girls home, saying they are his assistants in his oil business,” she stated in her petition.

The respondent denied all the allegations and pleaded with the court not to dissolve the 11-year old marriage.

“I have begged her several times to relocate to my house but she refused,” he added.

The court president, Mr. E. B. Shokunle directed the defendant to sign an undertaking with the police to maintain peace till the end of the case and adjourned the matter till 4 April, 2011.

—Ibrahim Bakare