A middle aged woman, Mary Iyayi, has asked Lagos Island customary court to dissolved her two years old marriage with her pastor husband for allegedly raping her.
Mrs. Iyayi told the court“My husband raped me and I had to lose a two-month old pregnancy in the process. I want the dissolution of my two-year-old marriage.
“My pastor-husband held my hands to the wall, so I could not move. I told him that I was pregnant but he did not listen, until he forcefully made love to me. After it, I started bleeding and I lost the pregnancy. He told me later that he had just helped me to flush out the pregnancy.”
Mr. Iyayi told the court that her husband beat her up at the slightest provocation that had led her to have two miscarriages.
She said that she had had three abortions for his husband in order to save his ministry from crumbling when they were courting noting that he has hidden his preferred for other women.
“He once told me that he preferred a woman with big breasts which I do not have.
“Due to the three abortions and two miscarriages I suffered. I was told at the hospital that my womb had been tampered with and that it would take divine intervention for me to be pregnant again, she said.
She added that prior to her packing out of her matrimonial home last year, her husband had stooped sleeping in the same room with her and even threatening to kill her.“Also, my husband threatened to kill me if I should leave him, saying it is against the law of his church. He said that their church law forbids its members from marrying another wife if the former wife was still alive.”
“I am making this appeal because I am the only child of my parents and I do not want to die prematurely and mysteriously,” she pleaded with the court.
Responding, the husband, Pastor Samuel Iyayi, 35, said that he did not rape his wife.
“It is true we had sex and she lost some blood in the process, but I did not rape her.”
He told the court that he still love his wife and would take her back if she was still in love with him.
The case was adjourned till July 1 for further hearing.
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