My Husband Is Stingy, He Goes To Market To Buy Foodstuff – Wife Tells Court

My husband is stingy, he does not give
me money for food, he goes to market to
buy foodstuff himself, a 32-year-old
woman, Mrs Cythian Igwe told an Igando
Customary Court in Lagos.
The petitioner urged the court to dissolve
her six-year-old marriage to Emmanuel
Igwe, whom she described as tight-fisted.
“My husband is stingy and selfish, he has
never given me money to go to the
market to buy foodstuff; he will rather go
himself and give me the foodstuff to
cook,’’ she alleged.
Cynthia accused her husband of
excessive drinking which she said made
him to behave abnormally.
“Emmanuel drinks a lot and after getting
drunk, he will start to destroy our
property or beat the children for no just
cause, there was a time he used my son
to play football.
“There was also a day he came home
drunk with one of his girlfriend’s,
immediately I opened the door, he
grabbed my clothes and tore it into
pieces, he and his girlfriend started
beating me.
“I shouted for help and if not for the
quick intervention of our neighbours, I
would have been dead by now,’’ the
applicant told the court.
The mother of three said she was often
embarrassed in public because of his
drinking habits.
She said he once appeared in her church
half Unclad with a bottle of beer and a
cigarette.
According to her, Emmanuel forcefully
sent her packing out of their
matrimonial home by hiring a truck to
convey all her belongings to her sister’s
house.
She begged the court to dissolve the
union because she did not love him
again and could no longer cope and that
her life was in danger.
However, Emmanuel, 34, a maritime
worker, denied all the allegations.
He said that it was his wife’s prophetess
that gave him beer to drink that he did
not come to his wife’s church to
embarrass her.
“It was my wife’s prophetess that `sow’ a
bottle of beer into my life and I drank it
and gave thanks to God,’’ he said.
The respondent said that Cynthia was a
nagging woman and that she always
disobey his orders.
Emmaunel also denied being a drunk
and a wife-beater, saying he was a
moderate drinker.
He said that his wife packed out of the
house herself that he was not the one
that sent her packing.
He, however, said he was fed up with the
marriage and told the court to grant his
wife’s request.
Mr Hakeem Oyekan, the President of the
court adjourned the case till July 13 for
judgment. (NAN)