Court ends 4-year marriage over blood incompatibility

Court ends 4-year marriage over blood incompatibility

by Joseph Anthony
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Mr Ademola Odunade, the President of  Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Monday dissolved a four-year-old marriage between Mariam and her husband, Ahmed Afolabi, due to blood incompatibility.

Odunade also advised intending husbands and wives to be well conversant with each otherโ€™s genotype before eventually settling down for marriage.



โ€œTherefore, in the interest of peace and order, the court has put an end to the union between Mariam and Ahmed.

โ€œMariam is granted the custody of the four-year-old child produced by the union.

โ€œAhmed shall pay a monthly-feeding allowance of N5,000 to Mariam for the upkeep of the child in addition to being responsible for her education and other welfare,โ€ Odunade said.

In her petition, Mariam who resides at Iyana-Lodge Street, Oke-Ado, Ibadan, told the court that her genotype did not correspond with that of her husband.

โ€œAfter I had settled down into the marriage with Ahmed, I realised that both of us were sharing a similar genotype โ€œwhich is โ€œASโ€™โ€™, a situation that had made it difficult for us to produce healthy children.

โ€œAccording to advice by our medical doctor, if both of us continue in the relationship, we might be producing children with Sickle Cell Disease.

โ€œAlready, the only child we have has started manifesting signs of a sickle-cell patient.โ€™โ€™

She also accused Ahmed of not fending for the child and her, adding that starvation had become the order of the day for them.

โ€œSimilarly, he does nothing about our material needs in addition to constantly quarrelling with me.

โ€œWithout wasting the time of this court, I donโ€™t have feelings for Ahmed any longer, please, separate us,โ€ Mariam said.

However, Ahmed who resides at Alegun-Fatosi Area of Ibadan, did not oppose the suit filed by the petitioner and was equally silent on all the allegations levelled against him.

The respondent said Mariam was a wayward wife, who was unfaithful to him.

โ€œMariam is my second wife and I rented a room apartment for her. But she was sleeping around in her friendsโ€™ apartments where different men kept having sexual intercourse with her.

โ€œIn fact, I caught her on several occasions in one of her friendsโ€™ apartments,โ€ Ahmed said.

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