My husband’s passion for hemp smoking affecting our children – Wife

A 39- year-old wife and mother of two, Mrs. Abiola Adetunji yesterday told an Abeokuta Customary Grade II Court, sitting at Ake how her husband, Kehinde Adetunji’s passion for Indian hemp smoking was affecting her children, hence her resolve to terminate the 20 years relationship.

Abiola, whose husband refused to show up for the third time before the court had the relationship dissolved by the President of the Court, Chief Olalekan Akande.

The mother of two, Oluwasegun 19, and Opeyemi 17, both males, lamented that she had to leave her matrimonial home because of the incessant hemp smoking habit of Kehinde.

“He smokes mostly in the night. Sometimes, he would lock us all in one room and started smoking hemp. There is nothing we can do; otherwise, it will result into another round of beating. I cannot just continue with such relationship. It is affecting me and my children. Sometimes, we cough ceaselessly and he will continue just like that,” Abiola told the Court.

Abiola in her statement of claim, said the relationship had broken irretrievably as a result of no care for the children with incessant beating, which has defied family intervention. As such, Mrs Adetunji said she was no longer interested in the relationship.

She however, prayed for the custody of the two children. Akande in his ruling dissolved the relationship.