My husband used our baby’s placenta for rituals, wife tells court
The Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Friday dissolved a four-year-old marriage between Musa Busari and his wife, Kafilat over issues of missing placenta and irresponsibility. President of the court, Mr Ademola Odunade, held that there was little or nothing the court could do on the matter as evidence had shown that the couple had agreed to part ways over irreconcilable differences. Dissolving the marriage, therefore, Odunade ordered that the man should be giving N3,000 as monthly feeding allowance for each of the two children produced by the union. He directed that Kafilat should have the custody of the twin children “because they are still legal minor while Busari should be responsible for their education, health and other forms of welfare’’Earlier, Kafilat had told the court that her husband and his relatives collaborated to steal her baby’s placenta for ritual. “Shortly before moving into Busari’s home in 2012, I was already pregnant with a set of twins for him. “It...