My wife is after my life — lecturer runs for his dear life

Journalists in Edo state were shocked last Monday when 
they came to the secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Benin City and found one Mr Abu Monday Layasini, a senior Political Science lecturer at the Western Delta University, Ogharra, weeping profusely. He alleged that some strange faces he suspected to be hired assassins surrounded his house and that they were there to kill him.

The lecturer who disclosed that he had been having running
battles with his estranged wife which forced him to file for
divorce at the High Court in Benin, said the threat to his life
started since the wife surprisingly told him that he was not
 the true father of their only son, four year-old Abu Stanley.

He lamented that he could no longer sleep in his house despite reporting the matter at the Eyaen Police station, adding that his wife was after his life because he insisted 
that the boy was his true son.

Narrating his story, he said, “at the beginning the marriage was very rosy, at a point I was working at the Ministry of
Environment and later I got an appointment as an assistant
lecturer at the department of Political Science and Sociology,
Western Delta University Ogharra, Delta State. Somewhere
along the line I started experiencing all kinds of difficulties
relating with my wife at home. Sometimes she would leave the house for days and I drew the attention of the family to it 
but what shocked me most was when she decided not to
 take good care of my son, and even when I gave her money
 to cook she would not buy anything and she often complained that the money I gave her got missing.

I have had cause to report the matter to her siblings and
 close friends and they made several effort to talk to her but 
all to no avail because she already had a mind set to ensure that I don’t enjoy the benefit of a happy marriage life. All the steps taken to manage the situation fell on deaf ears and when I now saw that all my effort to see that this matter was resolved were not yielding the desired results, I decided to invite my family and her family but all to no avail. She had fought me several times in public and torn my clothes to shred.

“On the 19th of August, 2015, my wife arrested me and 
I was locked up at the Aduwawa Police Station with a fictitious name of Eraboh Glory contrary to her name on the marriage 
record which I told the Police in the presence of my in-law, a staff of AIT, Mr Braimah Amozozo, who was responsible for how I was allowed to go home.

She went to the station claiming that I was not taking care 
of my son and I had to show the police evidence of payment of school fees and other expenses. More disturbing, she
continued to stay out of the house without my consent, 
even when I went to report to her family they claimed that
 they didn’t know her where about and when they called her she didn’t pick.

My life had been made miserable all these years because
 of her cruel disposition, I had to find a way of running down
 to NUJ because my life is now under threat because some
strange looking men I see around in my house holding
dangerous weapons points to the fact that there is an
 agenda to eliminate me. She even told me yesterday that
 she would kill me. Just yesterday, we had a little misunderstanding. This woman I legally married, had a 
child for me and I have been responsible for the upkeep of the child, in terms of feeding, clothing and medicare. What is 
more shocking to me is for this woman to tell me that I am
 not father of this child that I took to UBTH for hydro cell surgery in November 2016 which was successful. But when I asked her to name the father of the child she was kept quiet and could not justify her claim.

I now want the press and the whole world to appeal to this
woman to tell the world who the father of the child is so that I
can know the action to take given that I have instituted a case
of divorce against the woman at the High Court in Benin City”.

But in her reaction, Mrs Glory Abu denied sending assassin or
thugs after her husband noting that he was only interested in
forcibly taking custody of their only child from her. She said
she had continued to restrain herself despite the provocation
from her husband in order not to run foul of the law since the
matter was already in court. While reaffirming that her husband was the true and biological father of the child she explained what led to the recent altercation at her business premises last Sunday.

She said: “As usual my husband came here to see our son at
the shop, I have never denied him access to our son. He
came and started shouting, calling me a prostitute and all
kinds of names in public. I have tried to avoid him because I
want peace in my life. I have not been to his house since we
separated, he should please leave me alone, I am not after his
life. I don’t want to kill him and I don’t know what is wrong

with him”.