Teacher Dumps Student-Wife After Six Pregnancies

Ten years ago, Akeem Okin, a local
government staff who doubles as school
teacher impregnated his then 15-year-old
student Adijat who was in JSS3.
Consequently he took her in and they started
living as man and wife and soon became parents
to three children. Now their lives have turned full
cycle as the couple recently went to court seeking
for a legal dissolution of their union. The
husband started the legal bout when he filed for
the dissolution of their 10 years old union at a
Grade A Customary Court, Ojo, Lagos. Okin, filed
for divorce on the ground that his wife who he
alleged had been cohabitating with after he
impregnated her had become a pin on his neck
with her penchant for quarrels, street fights and
lack of respect.
While arguing his case in court, the diminutive
father of three accused his wife of being an
aggressive troublemaker. “This woman is very
stubborn, highly disrespectful and wicked. I met
her 10 years ago when I was still working as a
teacher. One thing led to another and she took in
for me. I took responsibility after she gave birth
and accepted that the baby was mine. But I never
knew that the decision I took was the beginning
of my woes. As soon as Adijat moved into my
house, she became aggressive and tormenting
not just me, but also my entire family, friends
and neighbours. It has become too much for me
to bear,” he asserted.
Countering the allegation levelled against her, the
25-year-old mother of three couldn’t hold back
her tears as she repeatedly lamented in Yoruba
language, “Oti ba aiye mi je’ (he has ruined my
life). Adijat also narrated her own side of the
story.
“We met in 2003 when I was still in junior
secondary school. He was a teacher then. He
disflowered me, got me pregnant and he
abandoned me to my fate. My parents too
rejected me. I survived only by the grace of God.
After I gave birth to the baby, he came back to
look for me. We started cohabitating in 2004. All
he did was to present himself to my parents as
the father of the baby. However, all my effort to
make him pay my bride price proved abortive.
He kept telling me that his parents are against
our union and he wouldn’t want to disobey them
and marry an illiterate.”
The beleaguered woman opened a can of worms
on her hubby. “Akeem is a non-repentant
woman beater and he often beat me till I bleed
to coma. Because of the incessant violence, I had
in the past lost three pregnancies. That aside, he
had brought different women home and had sex
with them on our matrimonial bed, even while I
was around. When I confronted him, he claimed I
am not good in bed, yet he had impregnated me
six times.”
Meanwhile, the visibly embittered woman vowed
never to let her estranged hubby have peace, if
he succeeded in severing their
long-time relationship.
“I don’t mind him taking in as many women as he
wants but I have to remain by his side for life. He
can’t push me, use and dump like a piece of
trash. I was very young and innocent when he
met me, now aside the fact that I am a mother of
three, I have a hearing problem due to his
animalistic beatings.
After listening to the pleas of both parties, the
court deemed it fit to dissolve the union and
ordered the husband who filed for divorce to
pay his wife the sum of N200, 000.