A Lagos-based woman, Blossom Odoemelan, has narrated how her businesswoman husband, Victor Odoemelan, allegedly impregnated another woman but remained unremorseful about it.
According to her, he asked him to commit suicide by drinking sniper if she did not like his action.
Blossom, a trader told the Igando Customary Court that she had been denied privacy in her home since they were married, telling the court that her husband would bring home anybody.
She was dragged to the court by the husband who is seeking divorce.
Victor accused her of not giving him peace of mind, saying she does not cook for the family, adding that she compares him to other men.
But Blossom said, “All his friends and family members have access to our home at any time.
“When I heard that he had impregnated another lady, I confronted him and he told me that if I was pained by what he had done, I should go and drink sniper.
“Since he told me that, I had vouched that I would make the home very hot for him since he was not remorseful.
“Another major issue is that it is his sister that cooks in our house; he gives her money instead of me; I am the wife and yet, I am denied my rights and responsibilities.
“He beats me in front of his family,” Blessing said, adding, “the instance of the plumber was true.
“After we had an argument, he beat me so much that my menstrual pad fell off, and that was what prompted me to pick up a knife that I would stab him.
“His sister would call me a mad woman in Igbo language. The day I found out the meaning, I warned her never to call me that and that she should instead channel that energy into finding a man to settle down with,” she said.
The respondent further told the court that after telling her sister-in-law to get married, she got angry and reported the issue to her husband.
She said that her husband, in return, head-butted her on the eye, thus prompting her mum to gather boys to threaten him never to raise his hands against her again.
Blessing said that she was okay with her estranged husband’s decision to dissolve the union, as she could not beg him to be with her since he had found love with another woman.
The court President, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, thereafter, adjourned the matter till Aug.16 for judgment.
