According to Nana, she used what she has to get what she needs after her boyfriend who was sponsoring her education abandoned her midway following lies told against her by jealous friends. Her words: "My boyfriend whom I met when I went to visit an uncle who was sponsoring my education. We had agreed to get married as soon as possible. Then some people i regard has a friends started peddling wicked lies against me without confirming if they were saying was true or false, he called it quits just like that. They told him I had an incurable disease. So, i decided to help myself because my parents cannot do anything for me. We are poor. My father used to be a driver but now he is unemployed while my mother is a full time housewife. Sometimes, she sells vegetables", They were paying me GH¢150 a month and you work late hours. But if you go out to hustle in the night, you can get that kind of money within a day or two. About 600 men slept with me from last year
Testifying in a Mapo Customary court, in Ibandan, Isaiah, 20, also allegedly that her step-father was responsible for her childlessness.
"Our step-father, started molesting me at the age of 12 and my younger sister, whenever we visit our mother in her maltrimonial home.
"Whenever my my mother is not, my step-father will threaten that he will kill me if I don't allow him sleep with me. So, I allowed him in order to live.
He raped me so many times, I never told mine mother because I didn't not know what will happen, but, I told my friends,
"He also raped my younger sister she told me that our step-father comes into the room where she sleeps with a mask and rapes her", She said.
Earlier, Dickson who spoke through an interpreter said he filled the divorce suit on grounds about abandonment.
He alleged that his wife, Mary, abandoned him for three years without no reason.
However, Mary countered her husband's submission of abandonment when she described as evil and an animal in human skin.
"It is true that I left Dickson's home. He raped my daughter, one of the two children i had be i married him.
"The girl was afraid to tell me what my husband did to her and stopped visiting me.
"In Cross River where I am from, it is a taboo for a man to sleep with a step-daughter and her mother.
"Except a certain sacrifice is performed, the step-daughter will never conceive and the mother will die.
"I am currently sick and I need urgent spiritual deleverance," Mary said.
After listening to the testimonies, Chief Ademola Odunade, the court's president's ordered all the parties concerned to ensured that they did the needful since it was a matter of life and death.
He held that Dickson might be charged for a felony.
The arbitrator adjourned the case till October 15 for judgement.
(NAN)
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