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33-year-old woman, Mrs Grace Adegboyega, told an Agege Grade A
Customary Court that her husband, Mr Sunday Adegboyega, attempted to
kill her by putting a fetish substance into her drink and started
telling people she had passed on. The plaintiff added that she was
shocked when her husband’s lover came home to sympathize with Sunday
over the ‘demise of his wife.’ She said that when she asked about the
woman who died, she bluntly responded that Sunday told her that his wife
( Grace ) died few days ago.
“Also while l was heavily pregnant, he poured kerosene into my food. I
perceived the odour from the food l served my daughter and l went wild
with him for trying to poison me.”
Grace said that shortly after the incident, the husband decided to
stay away from home, claiming he was busy working in a factory, not
knowing that he had impregnated another woman whom he was staying with.
She therefore urged the court to dissolve the marriage and grant her
custody of the children as she didn`t want to die young.