After 10 Years Of No Sex, Woman Begs Court To Dissolve 16-Year-Old Marriage

A woman who had endured 16 years of marriage with her alleged infertile husband, begged a Customary Court in Ibadan, Oyo State capital to dissolve their union, Naija News reports.

Narrating her ordeal on Tuesday, December 15, Mrs Toyin Bello told the court that her legally married husband, Dotun Bello, had not slept with her for about ten years to this time.

Bello accused her man of being irresponsible and lack productivity. Explaining the genesis of their marital problem, she told the court that she compromised her Christian faith by sleeping with another man after she found out he is infertile.

According to her, she became disturbed after she could not conceive for her husband about six years following the demise of their first child. In an attempt to save her husband from public ridicule, the fish seller said she resolved to meet another man to impregnate her.

She alleged that Mr Bello had refused to make sexual advances to her since the child died and this got her worried.

“Then, I started running from pillar to post; seeking spiritual and other available solutions towards getting pregnant for him,” she said.

“Dotun himself went to the hospital, but he never showed me the result of the test conducted on him in spite of my numerous demands. When Dotun was not at home one day, I saw the result where he hid it and it read: ‘unproductive due to low count discharge”

“With age not on my side any longer, I did the needful by secretly getting pregnant for another man so as to make him happy. Immediately after delivery, Dotun started misbehaving as he became grossly irresponsible and hostile to me and to the child.

“In fact, for the past 10 years now, he hasn’t slept on the same bed with me let alone touch me and I’m already feeling the trauma. Despite Dotun’s disaffection and irresponsibility to me, he is also taking steps to kill me so as to inherit my house and claim the child that doesn’t belong to him.”

“That is the reason why I have fled home to start sleeping in our church at Asi area in Ibadan.

“My lord, I cannot continue to waste my time with Dotun; age is no longer on my side; please dissolve our union,’’ Toyin cried.

On his part, while responding to the woman’s demand, Mr Bello begged the court to help pacify his wife because she was a rare gem. He admitted to once having a low sperm count, but he noted that he had since taken care of himself.

He said, “My lord, Toyin denied me my conjugal rite most of the times, usually complaining that she was tired having worked all through the day. In fact, there was a particular night I broke the door into her bedroom, but she was shouting that I wanted to rape her.

“The only mistake I made was that I didn’t report the incident to her relatives,” he stated.

The Court President, Chief Henry Agbaje after hearing from both side, adjourned the case to Dec. 29 for further hearing.