A 75-year-old man, Fashola
Fakorede, on Thursday urged a Customary Court, in the Lagos suburb of Igando,
to dissolve his marriage to his wife, Funke, 49, for allegedly beating him.
Fakorede told the customary
court that his wife had turned him into a punching bag and also inflicted
injuries over his body.
“My wife wants to kill me.
She beats me every day. I don’t want to die now, save my life. My wife always
beats me if I asked of food or anything. She has turned it to a routine affair,
all the scars on my body are as a result of her battery on me,’’ he said.
Fakorede said his wife no
longer takes care of him, adding, “She goes out and returns home at will
without seeking my permission. She can go out for days and if I queried her,
she will hit me with any dangerous weapon she can lay her hand on at that
moment.