Court adjourns to Sept 7, hearing in Lizzy Anjorin's hubby, Adegboyega, estranged wife's suit
*The couple when things were rosy
(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday had a suit filed by Lateef Adegboyega Lawal, against his estranged wife, Sariyu Olalude and the men of the Nigerian Police Force.
Adegboyega is the new husband to a Nigeria
actress, Elizabeth Anjorin, popularly called Lizzy Anjorin.
Meanwhile, the court has adjourned till September 7, 2022, for hearing in the suit.
He had dragged his estranged wife,
Folashade before the court in a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked FHC/L/CS/1488/22,
alongside Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, it's
Officer-in-Charge of the Monitoring Unit, and one Mrs. Tina, an Investigation
Police with the Zone 2.
Adegboyega in the suit filed by his lawyer,
M. B. Bello, asked the court for "a declaration that the continuous
harassment, humiliation, spreading of falsehood, and abuse on social media
against him and his family by his estranged wife first, is vindictive,
unwarranted, abrasive, oppressive, and same constitute a flagrant breach of the
applicant's rights to private and family life, as respectively provided and
enshrined under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As
Amended) and, therefore, unconstitutional and illegal.
"A declaration that his continuous
harassment, intimidation and humiliation by the second to fourth respondents
and their officers at the instance of his estranged wife, is vindictive,
unwarranted, abresive, oppressive and same‘ constitute a flagrant breach of his
rights to personal liberty and dignity of human person, as respectively
provided and enshrined under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, 1999 and the African Charter on Human and Peoples‘ Rights
“(Ratification and Enforcement) Act and, therefore, unconstitutional and illegal.
"An order of injunction restraining
the second and third respondents, whether by themselves, their officers,
agents, servants, privies or acting through any person or persons howsoever
from further harassing, humiliating, embarrassing and threatening to detain the
applicant based on the false and unfounded allegations from the first
respondent.
"A sum of N5million and N1 million
against his ex-wife and the police respectively, on the footing of aggravated
and/or exemplary damages for continuous harassment humiliation, spreading of
falsehood, and abuse-on social media against him and his family.
“And for on the footing of aggravated and/or exemplary damages for
his continuous invitation, harassment, intimidation and humiliation by the
second to fourth respondents at the instance of the first respondent."
But his estranged wife, Folashade, who is
the first respondent in the suit, in her counter affidavit filed by her lawyer,
Mr. Wahab Shittu, has asked the court to dismiss Adegboyega's suit, on the
ground that it was aimed at truncating an on-going Police investigation against
him.
Folashade in her counter affidavit stated
that she know the applicant whom she met in 2016 through his friend, one Mr.
Saheed Abogun, and they got married to in 2017 after a formal customary
introductory ceremony in her father’s house at lyana Iyesi, Ota, Ogun State.
And that the marriage was blessed with two children who are: Lateefat Lawal,
born in 2017 and Khadijat Lawal born in 2020
She stated that they were both living as
husband and wife at No. 7 New Oko-Oba Road, Fagba, Lagos. And that the
second product of their marriage, Khadijat Lawal was three to four months old,
when the applicant suddenly absconded from our matrimonial home abandoning me
and the children without any justifiable reasons, in 2020 and he has since then
stopped meeting his marital obligations and responsibilities including the
payment of house rent, children’s school fees and maintenance allowances for
the children.
Folashade stated that she got to know
subsequently that Adegboyega had started a relationship with the Nollywood
Actress, Lizzy Anjorin, and they both launched a vitriolic attacks on her and
her children on various social media platforms in order for the applicant to
abandon his matrimonial responsibilities to her and the two children of their
marriage.
She particularly stated that the applicant
through the said Elizabeth Anjorin, has issued several threats to her life
social media platforms to the extent that her life and that of her children
remained threatened and no longer feel safe to walk on the streets for fear of
being attacked. Adding further that when the threats and attacks became
unbearable, her plight got to the attention of human rights activist and on-line
social bloggers who launched public campaign for her protection against the
unjustified attacks by the applicant and Elizabeth Anjorin including their
collaborators.
She also stated that she officially
reported the applicant and his new wife, Lizzy Anjorin, to the Police at Zone
2, Onikan, Lagos Island. Adding that following the official report made by her
to the Police, the second, third and fourth respondents officially invited the
applicant, who has been shunning repeatedly Police invitations, to state his
own side of the story.
She stated that the suit instituted by the
applicant was design to prevent the him from honouring the invitation extended
to him by the other respondents.
She added that she never harassed, humiliated or spread any falsehood against
the applicant or his new wife, Elizabeth Anjorin as alleged.
She averred that she never published or
caused to be published any falsehood against Adegboyega and his new wife on any
social media as alleged other than, facts, in the public domain concerning the
harassment, abandonment, neglect and threats that she face on a daily basis in
the hands of the applicant and Elizabeth Anjorin and their collaborators.
She also denied the applicant's allegations
of calling him a “Jigolo”, a gold digger, on facebook and other social media
platforms, but stated that she was the actually the victim of the Applicant’s
neglect and abandonment, as the applicant abandoned her with two children only
to run to the said Elizabeth Anjorin.
She stated that invitation of the applicant
by the fourth respondent to report to the Police in response to her petition to
the Police is normal Police statutory investigation process. Adding the fourth
respondents merely invited the applicant to state his own side of the story.
She also averred that the applicant has
also been consistently interfering with the exercise of my personal freedom by
instigating the landlord of their former rented matrimonial premises at No. 7
New Oko-Oba Road, Fagba, Lagos, prevent me from moving out her personal
belongings from the said house till date. Adding that her previous attempts to
move out my personal belongings from the said premises were resisted by the
said landlord who threatened to effect my arrest acting on the instructions of
the applicant.
That my personal belongings still remain
detained in the premises up till date acting on the instructions of the
Applicant.
She stated that the applicant has been
using the children of his first marriage to persistently harass her on the
social media through all kinds of unprintable insults hauled at her person.
Adding that the suit filed by Adegboyega was aimed at truncating on-going
Police investigation on allegations against him.
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