How My Husband Tried To Rape Our Housekeeper – Woman Tells Court

Rasak Balogun, a 51-year-old accountant, has urged an Igando Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his marriage of 13 years to his wife for allegedly starving him of sex.

According to Punch, Balogun said his wife, Oluwabunmi, deprived him of sex and food whenever she was angry with him and often accused him of infidelity.

He said, “Whenever we have a misunderstanding, my wife will deny me sex and food; and for the past six months now, she has refused me to make love to her.”

 “She once trailed me to a place, stopped my car, dragged the woman out of my car and gave her the beating of her life. She also beat up one of our tenants, accusing her of having an affair with me. Because of her behaviour, I ordered her to leave my house and when she refused, I packed out from the house,” he continued, adding that he was fed up with the marriage and no longer loved her.

While testifying in the divorce petition filed by her husband, Oluwabunmi, a 42-year-old businesswoman and mother of three, accused her husband of being a flirt who had once attempted to rape their young housekeeper.

 She recalled, “When I went for a vigil, my 12-year-old housekeeper rushed to meet me in the church at about 12 a.m. half naked, telling me that my husband wanted to rape her.

“She stayed with me through the vigil and the following morning, I took the girl to my husband’s room to have her repeat herself in his presence.”

After the confrontation, she affirmed, her husband sent the housekeeper packing and moved out of their matrimonial home.

She said, “My husband packed out of the house he built to an unknown destination, abandoning me and our children. He moved out with a lady he was dating on our street to rent an apartment elsewhere.”

But she was still in love with her husband and did not want the court to grant her husband’s petition for divorce, she said.