» ''I Borrowed Money For His Studies, Now He Says I’m Old'' - Wife Tells Court «

There was a mild drama recently at the Agboyi/Ketu
customary court when a woman Ethel Amagala 53, who had
earlier approached the court for the dissolution of her
marriage with one Emmanuel Amagala, 60, stormed the
court in anger over newspaper publication of her divorce
case.
Mrs Amagala whose children had earlier pleaded the court
to discontinue the case, said her husband also became
angry when he read their divorce story in the newspaper
(not Vanguard). She said: “The children want the case
discontinued as it is causing embarrassment to the family.
They said they would find a way to bring peace into the
family.”
She had on the November 12, 2015 approached the court
for a divorce with her estranged husband who she said
took a new younger wife. The President, Mr. O. T. William
however lampooned Mrs Amagala over her behaviour
noting that the court was a public place and could not
have stopped journalists from doing their job.
The embattled woman sought divorce on the grounds of
abandonment, infidelity, lack of love and threat to life. “My
husband constantly tells me I’m old.”
Narrating how she met her husband over 27 years ago, she
said: “When he was studying at the Teachers’ Institute in
Bayelsa, he did not have money to take care of the family;
I was frying and selling chips in Bayelsa and even
borrowed money for his studies.”
When we had our first child, it was my elder sister who
paid for the hospital bill and took care of me and the baby
for three months. The situation remained same until 1991
when he took up an appointment with the NNPC, as a
manager. Now, he decided to marry a younger woman and
calls me a witch saying “I am old.”
She further claimed that her husband constantly beats her,
leaving her with injuries. “He had one day threatened me
with a knife in the presence of our tenants who rescued
me as he would have stabbed me with the knife.” Mr
Emmanuel Amagala denied the allegation of assault story
on his wife but told the court he abandoned the house he
built and decided to live alone in a rented apartment
because of her incessant nagging attitude which he
described as unbearable. The President however asked the
couple to go home and make their marriage work.