My wife promised to kill me~Husband to court

Firstclass newsline learnt that an Igando customary court in Lagos
State has intervened and saved a 30-year-old marriage between Mr
Sarafa Hassan and his wife, Waliat from collapsing.
President of the court, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, reconciled the couple,
instead of dissolving the union, after the couple went through a
series of counselling session.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that while striking out the
case, Omilola admonished the couple to maintain the peace always.
"I urge you both to go home and continue in love and peace," he said.
Mr Sarafa Hassan, 60, a welder, had filed a suit for the dissolution
of his 30-year-old marriage, claiming that his wife was always
threatening to kill him.
"I received the tip-off from a reliable source, warning me not to go
home that my wife had set a trap for me to paralyse me, and a few
minutes later, my wife called me several times to come home but I
refused.
"She always hit me with dangerous weapons; she vowed to terminate my
life and because of her threats, I ran away from the house I built and
started sleeping in my shop.
"I have reported her to her family on several occasions but they
always begged me to exercise patience that she would change but she
never did," he said.
The petitioner said that when he could no longer bear the situation,
he married another woman to love and care for him, but that Waliat was
also threatening his new wife.
"She always calls my new wife to tell her that she will become a widow
soon," he said.
He accused his wife of infidelity, alleging that she was having an
affair with a landlord living on their street.
The husband described his wife as a thief as she was always stealing from him.
However, Mrs Waliat Hassan, a 49-year-old trader, denied all the allegations.
She said that she had neither threatened to kill her husband nor had
she attacked him with any dangerous weapons.
"How will I attempt to kill the father of my children? I can't do that
because it is my children that will suffer," she said.
The mother of five denied dating the man her husband accused her of
having an affair with, saying that she had been faithful to her
husband since their marriage.
Waliat also denied threatening to kill the man's other wife, adding
that she only told her husband not to bring the woman to their house.
She begged the court not to grant her husband's wish for the
dissolution of the marriage, insisting that she still loved him.