Before a decision was made on her five-year-old marriage on Wednesday, an estranged wife, Mautin, stunned the court as she revealed that she did not know that her husband had two wives and six children before marrying him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was seven months pregnant when I discovered that my husband already had two wives and six children which he hid from me during our courtship.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe lied to me, my world collapsed but I survived the trauma,\u201d she told a Badagry Customary Court sitting in Topo, Lagos State, asking it to dissolve the union between her and Michael Idowu.<\/p>\n
Consequently, the court\u2019s President, Mr Sakirudeen Adekola, granted the request, saying \u201cI cannot give a willing husband to an unwilling wife.\u201d<\/p>\n
He granted the custody of the only child of the marriage to the petitioner who is the biological mother until the child\u00a0attains adulthood.<\/p>\n
Adekola said the former husband shall be responsible for the child\u2019s education and medical bills and also ordered Michael to be paying N15,000 monthly through the court as feeding allowance for the child.<\/p>\n
In addition, he said the respondent should be allowed unfettered access to the child and that the child should also be allowed to spend his holidays with him.<\/p>\n