LAGOS — A housewife, Azeezat Ayinde, Tuesday, urged an Igando Customary Court, Lagos to dissolve her six-year-old marriage to her husband, Mohammed, because he infected her with sexually transmitted diseases, STDs.

Azeezat, 32, who is a teacher, alleged that Mohammed was a womaniser and constantly had extra-marital affairs that led to her constant visits to the hospital to treat infections.

She said: “I have been in and out of hospital treating STDs like gonorrhea, staphylococcus and other infectious diseases due to my husband’s unfaithfulness.

“My husband used to invite a lady in my absence, I have caught them inside our room on different occasions.

“He always tells me she is his friend’s wife and that she is always lonely. That is why he always invites her to our house to keep her company.”

She accused her husband of abandonment, adding: “He goes out and comes back after four or seven days.

Azeezat said she had been the one paying the children’s school fees and feeding.

The mother of two begged the court to dissolve the six-year-old marriage, stressing that she was tired of spending money on STDs.

She said: “I am no longer interested in the union, am fed up of spending the money I am suppose to use on food and clothes on treating infections.”

Mohammed, 40, admitted that ladies always come to their house, claiming they were his wife’s friends.

The respondent, who is an engineer, said that “her friends always visit me whenever my wife was not around. I don’t have anything to do with them.”

He said he always stayed back at work because of distance, adding he always returns home at weekends.

“I always take care of my children when we were still living together until when my wife pack out of my house 18-month ago.

Mohammed consented to the dissolution of their marriage, saying he was no longer interested in the union.