A trader, simply identified as Ogene has sent his wife
packing out of their home, after she confessed that her
womb was damaged and she could not bear children.
The wife, Rita said her womb had been damaged during an
abortion when she was in secondary school in Onitsha town
in Anambra state, PM News reports.
Rita was said to have keept this secret from her husband
for five years after their traditional and church marriage.
After their marriage, the couple started seeking solution
when Rita could not give birth. They sought medical help
which cost a huge sum of money.
When it wasn’t yielding results, they sought spiritual help,
which led Rita to meet a pastor to whom she revealed her
predicament on why she was unable to get pregnant.
She was advised by the pastor to embark on fasting and
prayers and ask God for forgiveness, after which she should
confess to her husband and also seek his forgiveness.
The pastor was said to have assured her that with the
prayers, her husband would forgive her and would still take
her as his wife.
Unfortunately, the pastor’s words failed her as after
confessing, her husband sent her away from his house.
Ogene, a trader at Head Bridge market in Onitsha was angry
that his wife had kept such information from him and made
him waste huge sums of money on medical treatment,
saying there was no marriage in the first instance between
them because she lied to him
After he sent her packing, Ogene went to the Anglican
church marriage counsel in Awka and sought for the
dissolution of the marriage, which the church granted.
The rate of divorce has kept increasing over the years. Just
recently, Tunde Adekunle, who is a pastor and founder of
Christ Living Church, Owo, Ondo state, prayed an Akure
Customary Court to dissolve his 15 year-old marriage to his
wife, Agbeke for alleged frequent nagging.