IT has
been discovered that the an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card has been in the
centre of a relationship enmeshed in Juju science, otherwise known as charm,
magic or fetish.
A
Lagos-based civil servant who identified himself as Adeyemi Jolugbo, 32,
recently urged an Igando Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his four-year-old
marriage which he claimed was forced on him by the wife with a charm.
The News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Jolugbo had told the court that he had
come back to his senses and was not willing to continue in such a marriage any
longer.
According
to Jolugbo, his wife Bukola, was fetish and was not prepared to abandon fetish
acts. The petitioner said that Bukola, 31, took him to a cleric shortly after
they met in 2008, for some incantations aimed at luring him into the union.
Narrating
his ordeal to the court, he said, “When we got there, the cleric brought out
two wooden dolls – male and female. He recited some incantations and asked
me to say that I will love Bukola, marry her and listen to her forever. As I
was saying this, he was tying the two dolls together with a rope.
“After
that he told me to go and throw the two dolls in a river,” he said regrettably.
Further,
Jolugbo said that since Bukola moved into his house two months into their
courtship, he had been giving her anything she requested for, including his ATM
cards for withdrawal of huge sums of money, without justifiable reasons.
“If I
ask her what she used the money for, she will not give me a satisfactory
answer. When I was seriously ill, my wife did not take care of me; anytime she
came to the hospital it was for my ATM cards,” he lamented.
The
petitioner also accused his wife of regularly coming to his office to abuse him
and tell his boss that he was irresponsible.
Responding,
Bukola, a graphic artist, admitted that she took Jolugbo to the cleric for the
good of their marriage.
She also
said that reporting her husband to his boss was because he refused to come home
and urged the court not to dissolve the marriage because “I still loved him.”
The
Court President, Mr. Adewale Eko, ordered the petitioner to give Bukola N5,000
weekly for the upkeep of the two children until judgment in the case.
Staff writer/DSBNews
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