Man sacks wife for being HIV positive

A Customary Court in Jikwoyi, Abuja has dissolved the marriage between one Joseph Danjuma and his wife because of her HIV positive status.

Danjuma, a farmer had approached the court to dissolve the marriage over his wife's insistence on unprotected sex.

“My wife got pregnant and put to bed in 2012; the child got terribly ill and died.

“Due to the ailment and death of the child, I insisted that my wife be tested of HIV, which the doctor did and she tested positive.

“Because I still loved my wife, we used condom as a means of protection during sexual intercourse.

“But as time went on, she refused me using condom on her, and insisted on intercourse without condom,” he told the court.

The respondent corroborated the statement of the complainant but however consented to the dissolution of the marriage which she said she was fed up with.

Dissolving the marriage, the Presiding Judge, Everyman Eleanya, said that the court had done everything possible to reconcile the couple.

“The court did everything possible to reconcile the couple but all efforts failed,’’ he said.

The judge also ordered that the bride price paid over the woman be returned to the husband.