Devil pushed me to rape my wife’s sister, man tells Lagos court

“I don’t know what pushed me to where my
wife’s sister was sleeping, I don’t have any
intention of raping her, but the devil
pushed me, I’m sorry, I know I have made a
mistake,” he told an Igando Customary
Court in a suburb of Lagos.
He made the revelation while responding to
a suit filed by his wife, Elizabeth, accusing
him of infidelity.
The respondent said after the momentary
pleasure: “it was the devil’s handiwork.’’
The husband in turn accused his wife of
infidelity, claiming that she is currently
pregnant for her lover.
“My wife, who is accusing me of infidelity,
is currently pregnant for her man friend and
she had packed out of her matrimonial home
with our children.”
The respondent said that his wife used to
disturb him with her constant night prayers.
“Elizabeth is a prayer warrior, she always
disturbs my sleep at night with her
frequent prayers,” he said.
The petitioner, Elizabeth, 33, a food
vendor, had sought the dissolution of her
seven-year-old marriage because her
husband raped her sister right in their
matrimonial home.
“My husband raped my sister when I went
for a night vigil. When I returned, my sister
told me that my husband, who had been
making advances toward her succeeded in
raping her.
“When I confronted my husband, he
admitted raping my sister, but attributed
his action to the devil’s handiwork,” she
told the court.The mother of two said her
husband was always threatening to kill her
and that he always beat her with dangerous
weapons.
She said:”My husband is a wife beater, he
is in the habit of beating me on the
slightest provocation.
He had stabbed me with bottles and knives
on severally occasions that led to bleeding.
“He started beating and stabbing me from
the first day of our living together and I
am afraid he may stab me to death one
day.”
The pregnant petitioner begged the court to
end the marriage and that she was no longer
interested and that her life was not secure
with him.
After listening to the estranged couple, the
court’s president, Mr Adegboyega Omilola,
adjourned the case to June 2 for judgment.