A middle-aged-man, Collins Nduka, has pleaded with an Ojo Customary Court in Lagos to order his wife, Sefinat, to refund N1.4 million he spent on marrying her. Collins told the court that his wife, whom he married three years ago, had decided to abandoned her matrimonial home for more than a year. “I would want a refund of the amount that I spent as marriage and dowry expenses because she has become unfaithful. “My wife is not faithful to the marriage because she has other relationships apart from me and I don’t love her anymore. After all, she has not given birth to any child for me. “The most painful thing is that she has packed all my belongings in my house to an unknown place in addition to her emptying my shop which I stocked with over N750, 000,” he stated.. Collins added that the three-year-old marriage is being threatened and every bit of her action portrays her as someone no longer interested in the union. “I invited my friends from outside the country to make the marriage an expensive one and after it, she wants to leave me for another man, I need my dowry so she can be free,” Nduka stated. He pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage and order Sefinat to return his belongings and money so that he could continue with his life. Sefinat, who was not in court, had earlier said she did not cart away her husband's property. She stated that she was ready for the divorce. The court President, Chief Joseph Ogunmola, while advising the husband on the dangers of divorce, instructed that the respondent be invited to court. “The court does not dissolve any marriage except in extreme cases, we need the consent of both parties before judgment so she must be invited,” he stated. The case was adjourned to May19.
