» Anytime I Sleep With Her, I Receive Strange Knock On My Head — Husband «

A middle-aged woman, Sophia
Arapogun, has prayed an Agege
customary court to dissolve her 11-
year-old marriage because her
husband, Patrick, abandoned her for
two years.
Mrs Arapogun, who lives with her husband
and his six children from his previous
marriage, said he never asked her how she
fed.
“My husband buys foodstuffs for his
children and asks them to keep them in
their room. He never asked what I needed
at a particular moment and we lived
together,” she said.
The petitioner said her husband came home
at a time to sprinkle something that looked
like blood all over the house, adding that
she worked as a clerical officer in her
husband’s hospital.
She said: “I used to package melon to sell in
neighbouring markets but since my
husband didn’t like the idea, he employed
me in his hospital. There was a day I took
N300 to take passport photograph, he
shouted at me in the presence of his
children and I felt humiliated. I was more
shocked when he made sure I refunded the
money.”
She is seeking an accommodation from
him as compensation if her petiton is
granted.
Patrick said he married her because he
heard a pathetic story about her, adding: “I
asked if she had any evil spirit or medical
problems which didn’t make her conceive
during her two previous marriages but she
said no; then I married her.”
The respondent, a doctor, said after
their marriage, he discovered that
three minutes after making love to
her, he got a knock on his head.
“Not only did I get a knock, whenever
I had the intention of sleeping with
her, I would discover rashes on my
manhood or my manhood would be
twisted. At times, I would not get
Attention or my sperm ceases. Since
then, I became afraid of everything,”
Arapogun said.
He said his hospital crumbled after his wife
began to work with him, adding that she
stole money on several occasions.
“When we lived together, there were times
my wife left the bedroom and returned in
the morning without any explanation. Our
union is bad omen. I have suffered from
swollen legs, slight stroke and it was when I
realised my wife defecates in the bucket I
used to bathe that I decided to leave with
my children because I was not ready to die
young and I don’t know what was going to
happen next,” he said. The couple has no
issue.
President of the court, Pa Adekunle
Williams, ordered the petitioner to maintain
the peace and adjourned the matter till July
13 for further hearing.