In a desperate bid to pay his wife’s bride price 10 years after
impregnating her and luring her into cohabitation, Ekwene Itba is
planning to sell one of his children to pay the bride price, a
divorce-seeking woman, Esther Itba, told an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court
at Agodi in Ibadan on Monday.
“My Lord, I kept on worrying him to pay my dowry until we had three children, but he refused until recently when he sought my approval to allow him sell one of our three children to pay the dowry and formalise our marriage,” she said.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Esther had approached the court seeking the dissolution of her 10-year-old “union” on the grounds of non-payment of dowry, ill-treatment and failure to carry out his responsibility.
“My Lord, I kept on worrying him to pay my dowry until we had three children, but he refused until recently when he sought my approval to allow him sell one of our three children to pay the dowry and formalise our marriage,” she said.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Esther had approached the court seeking the dissolution of her 10-year-old “union” on the grounds of non-payment of dowry, ill-treatment and failure to carry out his responsibility.