A housewife, Mrs Sinmiat Omowumi Ogunbanjo, has been battered by her
husband, Jimmy Omotalabo Ogunbanjo, after she reportedly rejected
custody of a baby delivered by her husband’s mistress in Ogun State.
The incident happened on Sallah day at their residence in Ogun State.
Trouble
started for Omowumi after her husband, Jimmy, who is a staff of
Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Abeokuta, in Ogun State, returned
home with a two-year old baby.
P.M.NEWS gathered that her husband
lives in Abeokuta where he works while Omowumi who is his legitimate
wife lives in Ijebu Ode with their four children and family members.
The
40-year-old Jimmy who had returned to Ijebu Ode for the recent Muslim
festival informed Omowumi that he impregnated his mistress in Abeokuta
who delivered the baby he came with.
He told her that he picked up
the baby from his mistress and brought the child to her to nurse
because the mistress could not take proper care of the baby.Omowumi,
who was infuriated after what her husband told her, asked him to
return the baby to the mother because she was not ready to nurse or take
custody of the baby.
P.M.NEWS learnt that some members of the
family including her mother-in law, Ganiyat Ogunbanjo, pleaded with her
to take custody of the baby.
She still refused and told Jimmy that since he had other women besides her, he should take the baby to any of them to nurse.Her
response resulted in exchange of words and in the process Jimmy and
other members of the family present allegedly battered Omowumi and threw
her out of her matrimonial home.She was seriously injured and had scars on her body.
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According to her, the police who were supposed to assist her disappointed her also.
P.M.NEWS
gathered that when Omowumi went to the police station and reported her
predicament and assault, the police told her it was a family matter and
sent her away.
Following the development, Omowumi contacted a
lawyer, Barrister, Olufemi Ajiboso who petitioned the Ogun State
Commissioner of Police and the management of FRSC Ogun State Command,
her husband’s employer.
Ajiboso, who confirmed the incident, said
what happened to Omowumi was a clear case of inhumanity to man and an
assault not only on the victim but women in general.He said
Omowumi informed him that her husband had subjected her to all sorts of
ill treatment since he married her and she had been enduring it because
of her children.
He said that he had instruction from Omowumi to
write the petitions about the criminal conduct against her and to
institute a suit for divorce.
Ogunbanjo could not be reached at
the time of filing this report as his phone was switched off when our
reporter phoned him several times.