IKORODU – A 37-year-old accountant, Onome Agbudje, on Thursday dragged his wife to an Ikorodu Customary Court over the paternity of two of his three children.
Agbudje told the court that they had been married for seven years and that his wife, Grace, claimed that he owned the three children of the union.
The petitioner who resides at New Site, Bayeku, Igbogbo in Ikorodu, near Lagos, said the result of a DNA test conducted on one of the children triggered his divorce decision.
“When one of the children was very sick, the doctor advised us to conduct a genotype test, so I discovered he was a sickle cell carrier.
“Then we conducted our own test, I was AA while my wife was AS.
“So I was confused and asked why AA and AS should have an SS child.
“So I conducted a DNA test on all my children, then I discovered that the last child whom we had five years ago was my only child.
The petitioner had earlier alleged that his wife was always chatting with men on Facebook and WhatsApp.
“I told her to stop a beer parlour business but she refused because that is where she meets different concubines.
“I want this court to separate us so that I will not continue to take care of another man’s children,’’ Agbudje said.
Grace, 32, said she did not object to her husband’s plea.
She, however, begged her husband to provide shelter, welfare and sound education for the child he called his own.
The President of the Court, Mr T. K. Dabor, in his ruling ordered the petitioner to bring the DNA result to the court on the adjourned date.
Dabor adjourned the case to Nov. 22, and ordered the couple to produce the three children on the adjourned date. (NAN)