JUST IN: Kumuyi’s wife reveals how her husband has been poisoning her food

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A Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan dissolved a 21-year marriage between Omotayo Kumunyi and Olatunde Kumunyi.

The court’s decision was made in response to a petition filed by Omotayo, who cited poisoning and domestic violence as grounds for the dissolution.

Omotayo, a caterer and resident of Osungbade area of Ibadan, stated that her husband failed to provide for her and their four children. As a result, she relocated with three of their children, leaving the second child with Olatunde.

“My lord, about five years ago, our third child confided in me that she usually saw her father pouring some black substance into my own food whenever I was not there.

“I was shocked by this piece of information and confronted him with the revelation.

“Subsequently, I invited him to eat part of the food and he declined tasting from it.

”As if that was not enough, Olatunde regularly turned our first child and I to a punching bag anywhere he came across us.

“I also beg the court to grant me custody of the children because Olatunde will not adequately take care of them,” Kumunyi said.

Olatunde, the respondent, did not provide a response to most of the allegations made against him.

However, he confirmed that he had paid dowry to his wife’s parents.

Olatunde, a carpenter and resident of Number 2 Olatunde Street, Police Post at Challenge in Ibadan, proposed a condition regarding the children’s upkeep.

He stated that if the court did not grant him custody of the children, he would be willing to pay N5,000 as monthly upkeep.

“I want to take custody of the children because Kumunyi has the habit of maltreating the last two children.

“The second child with me had been going to school regularly,” Olatunde argued.

The court’s President, Mrs. S.M. Akintayo, delivered the judgment, pronouncing the marriage between Omotayo Kumunyi and Olatunde dissolved. She emphasized that the marriage was duly contracted, based on the evidence presented by both parties.

Mrs. Akintayo granted custody of the last three children to Kumunyi. Additionally, she ordered Olatunde to pay a monthly feeding allowance of N20,000 for the children’s upkeep.

According to NAN, Olatunde is also responsible for the children’s education and overall welfare.

“The first child is 18 years of age and because he is an adult by law, he has the right to choose whoever to live with between his two parents.

“However, the petitioner must allow the respondent a reasonable access to the children,” the President said.

The court’s President, Mrs. Akintayo, also issued a restraining order against Olatunde, prohibiting him from threatening, harassing, disturbing, or interfering with Kumunyi’s private life from now on.

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