There was mild drama on Tuesday at Idi Ogungun Customary
Court, Agodi-Ibadan, when a woman, Monsurat Adeleke, and her lover, Bayo Ogunsola,
disagreed over the paternity of her three–year- old son.
Monsurat had approached the court seeking an order to
restrain the defendant from parading himself as the biological father of her
son.
In her testimony, Monsurat told the court that she was six
months pregnant when she met the defendant in a hotel.
According to her, the defendant used a spell on her which
made her to leave her matrimonial home about three years ago to live with him
in his house.
She said, “I was under the spell for three years and this
made me to deliver the baby in the defendant’s house and I left his house for
my matrimonial home recently when the spell was broken.
“My husband is the biological father of the child in
question and I pray the court to give an order to stop the defendant from
claiming to be the father of the child.”
In his defence, Ogunsola insisted that the complainant conceived and gave birth to
the child in his house.
According to the defendant, he had met the woman in a hotel
owned by his brother and wooed her.
He said, “There was a day I called her and asked for reasons
why she comes to a hotel always; she told me that her husband was not
responsible.
“I promised to marry her if she could stop frequenting the
hotel and she agreed.
“She subsequently packed into my house where we both lived
as husband and wife.
“She conceived and gave birth to the child in the course of
our living together.
“Only recently, she packed out and returned to her former
husband.
“The only thing I need from her is my child because the
child is mine and I am not ready to allow her take my child to another man.”
The President of the Court, Chief Mukaila Balogun, adjourned
the case till Feb. 27 for continuation
of hearing and asked both parties to bring their witnesses with other
evidences.
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