A man has narrated how a Lagos State Customary Court Judge snatched his wife by taking advantage of small understanding between him and his wife, and then went ahead to marry the woman.
This is even as the judge has been suspended by the Lagos state government.
The man, Razak Adeyeri,
Ayeni alleged that the judge, Ishola Adeyeri, hurriedly dissolved his marriage and later married his wife, Doyin, when they started having marital problems and approached his court to resolve the issue.
Adeyeri and Doyin got married at the Orile Agege registry in Lagos on December 31, 2015.
Ayeni, who runs an education advisory company in Egbeda, Lagos, had initially called for help to get custody of his two children, whom he said were taken away from him and made to live in the house of the judge.
He said: “when I married my wife, I invested N5 million in her school business. But the success of the business caused problem. I could not control her again.
“She had to move out of the house and rented an apartment in our area. After 10 months, I took her to court, thinking I would be able to resolve the matter through an alternative dispute resolution. But the judge, Dr. Ishola Adeyeri, hurriedly dissolved my marriage and impregnated her three months after the dissolution of my marriage.
“What really pained me was that the ruling was obnoxious. He denied me access to my children. He ordered that I could only see the children in the school premises once in a week. He took over the business I started with the woman. He still wanted to send me to jail. He had been using the police to harass me. He brought the police to my house and I was detained at Abbattoir Police Division.”
It was learnt that Ayeni was later arrested in February and charged to court for alleged assault and planning to kill Adeyeri.
He said that he spent two days behind bars at the Kirikiri Prison after he was remanded. He was again charged for assault in another court.
The day after he was released, he said the police again came for him and he had to flee his home because he feared for his life.
“He used his office to destroy my marriage. He dissolved my marriage in February 2015 and my ex-wife gave birth to his child in March 2016. That shows he impregnated my wife just three months after he dissolved our marriage,” Ayeni had said.
But he has finally got custody of his children.
However, Adeyeri could only respond to the allegation through a text message saying: “I am sorry, I am not obliged to talk to the press.”
This was even as the controversial wife, Doyin, who is the founder of Greatest Kiddies Foundation, a private school in Egbeda, Lagos, alleged that Ayeni did not get the custody of his children legally but that he invaded her school and took the children forcibly.
The woman said that there was no truth in the claims that her ex-husband invested N5 million in her school business.
She said: “We got married about seven years ago, but my school has been in existence for 12 years. He did not pay a dime in my business.
“He lied by saying I took his children to another man. He was the one who threw me out of his house with the children, saying they were bastards.
“We started having problems when I had a miscarriage and he beat me afterwards. He said I had used the unborn child for rituals. He also took me to court and asked for divorce.”
But when asked if it was the same judge, who ordered their marriage dissolution that she remarried, she said, “don’t I have the right to remarry whoever I like after he divorced me? If I was impregnated by the judge, was it when I was still in his house? We had separated since 2013. We were formally divorced February 2015. I remarried in December 2015. I have freedom to marry whoever I chose to marry.
“He has continued to threaten my life. People in the neighbourhood can testify to this. I am away from the school now because on March 1, he came to beat me up in the school. I landed in the hospital. I was forced to labour on March 8. The very day he wanted to send me out of his house, he beat me. I have never had a rest of mind since 2013.
“What else does he really want from me? After all, he said he was not interested in the relationship again. Since he came to forcibly take the children from the school, I have not set my eyes on my children.”
It was gathered that the Lagos Judicial Commission has suspended Adeyeri after a complaint was lodged against him.
The commission was said to have summoned him and Ayeni, before deciding that the judge had taken an action that amounted to misconduct. There are unconfirmed reports that he has been finally sacked.
The spokesperson for the commission, Moses Akinniyi, said that he was not in a position to either confirm or deny the dismissal of the judge.
He, however, said that the case was indeed brought before the commission.
Source: PUNCH. [myad]
