‘My Wife Killed Our Child & Hypnotized Me’ – Man Alleges in Court

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan reportedly dissolved a 33-year-old marriage on Tuesday over alleged threat to life made by a retired civil servant, Mr Jimoh Babatunde, against his wife, Jelilat.

According to Vanguard, Babatunde told the court presided over by Mr Henric Agbaje that Jelilat had made two attempts on his life and had even confessed to killing one of their four children. He said,

“My lord, Jelilat confessed to have killed one of our four children in order to eventually eliminate me for reasons which I cannot actually tell. Secondly, she put some stuff into my food recently to hypnotise and make me be in servitude to her.

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I did all I could to change her for the better by talking to her and reporting her to her parents, but nothing came out of it. Now, she wants to sniff life out of me.”

Jelilat however denied her husband’s allegations, adding that if the marriage was dissolved, she had nowhere to go and still wanted to parent her children in her matrimonial home. She pleaded with the court not to dissolve the union and promised to turn a new leaf.

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Ruling on the divorce petition, Agbaje said,

“The court frowns at any case of threat to life as the one currently been witnessed. It is abundantly clear that there is something cruel about Jelilat’s disposition, otherwise, no man would want to part ways with a 33-year-old union. In the interest of peaceful coexistence, the court has put an end to the union between both of you.

Jelilat shall take custody of the last child aged eight years old and Babatunde shall pay N12,000 for accommodation and an addition N5,000 for the movement of Jelilat’s belongings.”