‘Baby boy’ tears family apart For eight years, he lived a lie – without knowing it. He was led to believe by his wife that she had a male child for him when the baby is actually a girl. The bubble burst when Chief Sunday Awobotu, a Lagos landlord, realised that he had been fooled. Awobotu of Bale Street in Ojodu, a Lagos suburb, is praying the Agege Customary Court to dissolve his marriage to Lola. Recounting his experience, he said apart from staying out late, his first wife is lazy and has been lying to him that she had a male child for him. Awobotu, who has seven female children from his first wife, married Lola when she told him she was expecting a male child. Lola was then one of his tenants and also his mistress. Awobotu threw out his wife (now late) and children after Lola told him she was expecting a baby boy which he had been praying for. He said: “My wife (Lola) told me she had a boy for me. I was overwhelmed with joy because I had been in desperate need of a boy that would inherit my property when I am gone; seeing the child every day was like a mission fulfilled. “The child is eight-year-old now. I just realised he is not a boy, but a girl because she had always dressed her up in male wears. She forced herself on me from the beginning. She is a shame to womanhood. I owe my late wife and children an apology.” The court president, Mr Adekunle Philips Williams, adjourned the case till May 8. He ordered the parties to appear before him to enable him look into the case.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:40:08 +0000
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