A civil servant, Blessing Ilo, on Tuesday
told a Nyanya Customary Court, Abuja, that her husband has been having canal
knowledge of his biological daughter.
Ilo testified in a divorce petition she
filled against the husband, James Akpan.
She said, “All the while I was living with my
husband and that little girl of 12 years, I don’t know that my husband was
always having sex with her when I’m out of the house.
“I would not have suspected anything because
when my husband brought the little girl into the house, he told me that she was
one of his children from another woman.
“Also, the girl was still a child that no
sane man will lust after.”
The petitioner told the court that on a
particular occasion, the little girl confessed to the police that her father
usually tie her hands before having sex with her.
Ilo said that she had to move out of her
husband’s house because he was always messing up the house, especially when he
was drunk.
She said, “My husband always urinates around
the house whenever he is drunk; sometimes on the bed or on the floor of the
room.
“Worst of all, one day he woke up in the
night and went straight to the kitchen, opened the bucket of drinking water and
urinated into it.”
She also said her husband does not provide
food for the family, adding “not even his child’s school fees.”
The petitioner begged the court to dissolve
the marriage and grant her custody of the only child of the union.
The respondent was not present in court.
The judge, Jemilu Jega, reiterated that the
respondent was served on three different occasions but refused to appear in
court.
He adjourned the case till February 9 for
judgment.
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