A 73-year-old retired soldier, Kalid Ayanlaki, has divorced his wife of seven years because he does not Iove her anymore.
“The love I once had for my wife has vanished. I am tired of her and I want her out of my life and house.
“Please, terminate the marriage for us to go our separate ways,” he pleaded with Igando Customary Court in Lagos.
However, the spurned wife, 52-year-old fashion designer, Funke Ayanlaki, insisted that her husband must produce the corpse of their only child before she would accede to his plea a divorce.
She said: “I will never agree to the divorce unless he gives me the corpse of our child.
“He took the corpse of the only child I had for him and vanished into thin air. I do not know what he did with it.
“I want the corpse back. That is the only condition on which I will accept the dissolution of our marriage.
”I have suffered and experienced so many strange illnesses in the marriage and I also lost my child mysteriously. He cannot just use and dump me.”
The fashion designer further lamented: “My husband has a sugar-coated tongue, he promised me the world when he was wooing me.
“But after I moved in with him, he never fulfilled any of the promises but instead made my life miserable.”
She pleaded with the court not to dissolve the marriage because, according to her, she still loves her husband regardless of his maltreatment of her.
“Each of you should go their separate ways. The court wishes both of you well in your future endeavours.”
The court president ordered Mr Ayanlaki to pay N150,000 as a severance fee to his wife and additional N200,000 to enable her to secure a new apartment.
