Your lordship, my wife is a witch. She appears and disappears, using her wonder-working powers,” a businessman, Olarenwaju Moruf, yesterday alleged at an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State.
He urged the court to dissolve her 17-year-old marriage, saying: “I’m no longer interested in the union, as the love I have for her has faded.”
Moruf, 58, accused his wife, Fatima, who has a child for him, of witchcraft.
“There was a day my wife appeared physically to me in my hotel room when I travelled to the North for a job. I shouted and she disappeared.
“She keeps appearing and disappearing whenever good things are coming my way. She once appeared to me and my promotion letter turned to sack letter.
“Everywhere I went for a solution, I was told my wife was responsible for my predicament. I believe this because I’m a witness to her devillish acts. She belongs to a cult,” he alleged. Moruf added: “There was a day I came home unexpectedly to pick what I forgot. I caught my wife holding a meeting with a cult member.
“Fatima brings strange people to our matrimonial home, including a teenager, whose father is a herbalist.”
The petitioner alleged that the respondent threatened to poison him.
Fatima, 47, a trader, denied the allegations, saying: “I am not a witch.”
Her words: “I am not behind my husband’s predicament. My hands are clean. I don’t belong to a cult. I’m a devout Muslim.”
The respondent implored the court not to dissolve the marriage, insisting: “I still love him.”
The court President, Mr. Adegboyega Omilola, adjourned the case till November 2 for further hearing.
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