When he married his wife 20 years ago, Mr. Tasie managed a thriving business. The wedding was the talk of the town as there was plenty wining and dining. The couple’s desire was to live happily together forever.
Subsequently, their marriage was blessed with two children – a boy and a girl. One of their children is already a 300 level student in a public university.
All seemed right until many years after when calamity struck. Tasie’s business could no longer take care of the family’s needs. To make the matter worse, he came down with a serious illness and had to spend the little that the family could garner financially on footing his health bills.
The situation became unbearable for his family members as his relationship with his wife gradually turned sour.
It got so bad that the 55-year-old and his wife recently asked the court to dissolve their union. The court, after much arbitration, granted their prayer based on irreconcilable differences.
On the day that the judgement was delivered, Tasie could barely stand in court because of ill health. He had to sit, just as the floor where he put his legs was mopped at intervals because the sore on his feet kept discharging pores.
Even in that state, he told the court how he had cared for his family and the incident that altered the course of his destiny.
He said that his wife had made his life miserable by not caring for him when it mattered. He even alleged that his wife infected him with the disease.
He rolled on the floor begging the court to let his wife and children go as they desired.
He pleaded, “Please let them go or they will kill me before my time.”
His wife on the other hand, told the court that her husband never trusted her enough to listen to anything she told him.
She said that he usually sniffed her underpants whenever she came back from the market where she traded.
She added that all the profit from her business had gone into taking care of her husband and the family.
She said, “Despite all these, he beat me and stripped me naked in public.”
She cried to the court to dissolve their union based on this reason and denied infecting him with any disease.
But her husband insisted she had been seeing another man, who purportedly was present in court to witness the divorce.
Their 20-year-old marriage was subsequently dissolved and both parties parted ways.
The woman was given custody of the children but Tasie could see them once in a month within the court premises.
The Tasies had their marriage dissolved after 20 years, but the case of a 28-year-old woman, Mrs. Ekeh, was a sharp contrast.
After all the fanfare that characterised her marriage barely one year ago, she had asked for the dissolution of her marriage.
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