Husband Claims That His Wife Hired Assasins To Kill Him

A 57-year-old man, Solomon Fasade, has pleaded with an Iyana-Ipaja Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his 17-year-old marriage with his wife, Abosede.

Mr Fasade, who lives in Ayobo, a Lagos suburb, is accusing his wife of waywardness and threatening his life.

He claimed that she brought another man to their house.

“Two years after I was robbed, I later got to know my wife arranged armed robbers to my house and went as far as asking them to kill me,” - he said.

When the court’s President, Mrs Shalewa Banjoko, asked him how he got to know this, he said: “It was a neighbour who told me the insect that eats up a leaf lives on the leaf. I was confused and shocked.”

The defendant, Mrs Fasade (43), said the only reason her husband thinks she is a flirt is because she sells alcoholic drinks.

“I sell alcoholic drinks in front of my husband’s house but I am not an harlot,” - she said.

She said she never planned to kill her husband.

“I will never kill him because he has been responsible for the upkeep of the children I had from my previous marriage. If it was my intention, I would have succeeded in doing so because I cook for him and we sleep together on the same bed. I will never do such. I still need my husband because he is a good man,” - Mrs Fasade said.

Banjoko ordered the couple to be peaceful and adjourned the matter till Thursday.