court in Igando Lagos State to dissolve her four months old
marriage to Charles Ezenwa, claiming the man started
beating her less than 4 days after paying her dowry.
Perpetual said she married Charles after dating him for less
than 2 months and now seeks divorce over what the she
tagged domestic violence.
She said, "we married after courting for less than 2 months.
Before I married him, I've started noticing his behaviors but
when I told my father he said I should not leave him that he
would change after our marriage.
"I believed he said that because they are from the same
village in Imo and being the first daughter of my parents,
they want me to marry on time. But, he kept becoming
worse and I've decided to leave after 4 months of our
marriage. 4 days after the payment of my dowry and our
traditional marriage, he started beating me on flimsy
excuses. He beats me with turning sticks in one of those
days all because I received a text message from a friend
and the message only reads "good day madam, how's
your weekend ". This was what Charles saw that day and
he nearly killed me. Come to think of it, this same man
that was beating me is having an affairs with a fiancée of
one of our neighbors. He did was caught on one of those
days and I got to know about it. I told my father of all the
happenstance but he would only say I should endure it.
When I couldn't bear it again, I've moved to my parent's
house and I've asked Charles to come and get his dowry
back according to our tradition so that I can marry
another man but, he has refused to collect it saying he
would allow me to suffer because he knew I can't marry
another man unless he collect the dowry and that I would
grow old in my father's house."
She now wants the court to force him to collect back his
dowry. Charles was not in court to say his side of the story,
so the Court's president, Adegboyega Omilola who sat over
the case sent a court order to him and the case was
adjourned till February 8, 2016.
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