Court dissolves marriage over religious difference
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when we got married we always attend our shrine together until about few months ago when she started having some friends and getting advice against my wishes1 by ibrahim abdulazeez1 the complainant muri had approached the court seeking dissolution of the marriage over refusal of his wife to attend the ifa shrine with him1 he said he could no longer tolerate the insubordination1 is a traditional religion and a system of divination the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means1 a grade c customary court sitting in iseyin oyo state on thursday dissolved a four-year-old marriage between remi atanda and muri atanda over religious difference1 i had done everything possible to persuade her but she refused. even i called her family to intervene and that also did not yield result1 she has to move out of my house because her action was totally against my family tradition and customs. it is a taboo for me to keep her under my roof muri said1 in his ruling the president of the court chief adelodun raheem who frowned at the absence of the respondent said it was obvious that the relationship between the estranged couple had totally broken down1 he thereafter dissolved the union accordingly1 the courts president also granted the custody of the two children produced by the marriage to muri1