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The details of ascandal, which led to the suspension of a Lagos State Customary Court Judge,Mr. Razak Adeyeri, have come out, as the parties in the issue – the estrangedcouple and the judge – explained what happened in one of the most controversialcases in Lagos customary courts in recent times.
Ayeni had alleged that the judge, Mr Adeyeri, hurriedlydissolved his marriage and later married his wife, Doyin, when they startedhaving marital problems and approached his court to resolve the issue.
Adeyeri and Doyin got married at the Orile Agege registry inLagos on December 31, 2015.
Ayeni, who runs an education advisory company in Egbeda,Lagos, had initially called for help to get custody of his two children, whomhe said were taken away from him and made to live in the house of the judge.
He said, “When I married my wife, I invested N5m in herschool business. But the success of the business caused problem. I could notcontrol her again.
“She had to move out of the house and rented an apartment inour area. After 10 months, I took her to court, thinking I would be able toresolve the matter through an alternative dispute resolution. But the judge,Dr. Ishola Adeyeri, hurriedly dissolved my marriage and impregnated her threemonths after the dissolution of my marriage.
“What really pained me was that the ruling was obnoxious. Hedenied me access to my children. He ordered that I could only see the childrenon the school premises once in a week. He took over the business I started withthe woman. He still wanted to send me to jail. He had been using the police toharass me. He brought the police to my house and I was detained at AbbattoirPolice Division.”
Saturday Punch learnt that Ayeni was later arrested inFebruary and charged to court for alleged assault and planning to kill Adeyeri.
He said he spent two days behind bars at the Kirikiri Prisonafter he was remanded. He was again charged for assault in another court, whichhe was unjust.
The day after he was released, he said the police again camefor him and he had to flee his home because he feared for his life.
“He used his office to destroy my marriage. He dissolved mymarriage in February 2o15 and my ex-wife gave birth to his child in March 2016.That shows he impregnated my wife just three months after he dissolved ourmarriage,” Ayeni had said.
But he has finally got custody of his children.
After several phone calls to get Adeyeri’s comment on theissue, he later sent a text saying, “I am sorry, I am not obliged to talk tothe press.”
When Saturday Punch reached out to Doyin, who is the founderof Greatest Kiddies Foundation, a private school in Egbeda, Lagos, her ownversion of the story was completely different from her ex-husband.
She alleged that Ayeni did not get the custody of hischildren legally but that he invaded her school and took the children forcibly.
Reacting to Ayeni’s allegations, the woman told SaturdayPunch that there was no truth in the claims that her ex-husband invested N5m inher school business.
She said, “We got married about seven years ago, but myschool has been in existence for 12 years. He did not invest a dime in mybusiness.
“He lied by saying I took his children to another man. Hewas the one who threw me out of his house with the children, saying they werebastards.
“We started having problems when I had a miscarriage and hebeat me afterwards. He said I had used the unborn child for rituals. He alsotook me to court and asked for divorce.”
But when asked if it was the same judge, who ordered theirmarriage dissolution that she remarried, she said, “Don’t I have the right toremarry whoever I like after he divorced me? If I was impregnated by the judge,was it when I was still in his house? We had separated since 2013. We wereformally divorced February 2015. I remarried in December 2015. I have freedomto marry whoever I chose to marry.
“He has continued to threaten my life. People in theneighbourhood can testify to this. I am away from the school now because onMarch 1, he came to beat me up in the school. I landed in the hospital. I wasforced to labour on March 8. The very day he wanted to send me out of hishouse, he beat me. I have never had a rest of mind since 2013.
“What else does he really want from me? After all, he saidhe was not interested in the relationship again. Since he came to forcibly takethe children from the school, I have not set my eyes on my children.”
But the Lagos Judicial Commission seems to have a differentopinion on the issue as Saturday Punch gathered that Adeyeri was recentlysuspended after a complaint was lodged against him.
The commission was said to have summoned him and Ayeni,before deciding that the judge had taken an action that amounted to misconduct.There are unconfirmed reports that he has been finally sacked.
The spokesperson for the commission, Mr. Moses Akinniyi,told our correspondent that he was not in a position to either confirm or denythe dismissal of the judge.
He, however, said that the case was indeed brought beforethe commission.
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