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Woman Arrested For Marrying Two Men
June 18, 2009 14:49, 800 views
By Cyriacus Izuekwe
For marrying two men at the same time, men of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a 48-year-old housewife, Okeowo Ada.
Okeowo was arrested by the police in Shasha in Alimosho council area, when two men, Demola and Afolabi, who laid claim to being her husband, engaged each other in a street fight. P.M.NEWS gathered that Demola confronted Afolabi accusing him of having amorous affairs with his wife. Unknown to them, the woman was married to each of them at separate marriage registries, as discovered by the Investigating Police Officer (IPO), Sergeant Shittu, during interrogation of Okeowo Ada .
The police officer therefore arrested the woman and detained her at the station. She will likely face a charge of conduct capable of breaching the peace, as well as bigamy, an offence relating to a woman marrying more than one man at the same time. When our reporter visited the Shasha police station, Okeowo Ada was seen around but she declined to speak on the matter. The police also declined comments. However, a reliable source from the police station confirmed the incident. The source also told our reporter that the woman will be arraigned in the court very soon.
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Na jeje i dey o!
18 June 2009 14:57na wa oooo!
Tribunal
18 June 2009 15:03I THOT WHAT IS GOOD 4 D GEESE IS ALSO GOOD 4 D GANDER, WHEN MEN ARE MARRYING UP TO 6 WIVES AT D SAME TIME, PPLE WILL BE PARAISING THEM, SO WHAT IS NOW BAD IF A WOMAN HAS DECIDED SO SET D RECORD STRAIGHT BY MARRYING LIKE 2 - 3 HUSBANDS AT D SAME TIME. TI SEEMS THE POLICE DO NOT AV ANYTHING MEANINGFUL 2 DO, IF NOT THEY SHOULD BE TAKEN TO NIGER DELTA TO FACE D MILITANTS SO DT THEY WILL B BUSY AT LEAST 4 ONCE.. N 4 ADA, AS SOON AS U R OUT OF DIS MAKE SURE DT U ADD 2 D STAKE BY ADDING LIKE 3 MORE MEN TO D LIST AT D SAME TIME, N IF ANY1 THREATENS U, DONT TAKE DEM TO COURT, JUST BRING DEM 2 MA TRIBUNAL COZ TDT WILL BE TANTAMOUNT 2 INFRINGEMENT ON UR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS
Mashall
18 June 2009 15:30I don’t see a problem here.As long as men can do it,I believe women can as well do the same.Instead of the police to go and fight proper crime,they are wasting their time chasing a case that will come to nought after some exchange of money.Nonsense
Abu
18 June 2009 15:51THE MEN ARE TO BE BLAMED FOR ALLOWING THE WOMAN TO CHEAT THEM TO THIS LEVEL.
SKIPPOOO SURUTU
18 June 2009 15:53All I know is that She must have married one for Money and the other for DO ME I DO YOU God no ge vex
Ogunstatenawa
18 June 2009 15:59They should release the woman immediately after all men have many wives so why cant she have multiple husbands? Infact if she is good looking I want to be husband number 3
oz
18 June 2009 16:03what a man can do woman can do also as they said. if men can be polygamous women can also be as well. but buttom line is, when a man marrys a wife and he is not living with her what did he expect. he expect nothing other than to share his wife with some other men out-there. in the case of ada she wants to make it an official sharing.cos if any of these men are living in the same house with ada,playing his role as a husband and behaving like a married man, she will not have time to do that which she did. but why should a woman marry more than one husband likewise men.a woman that marrys more than one husband didn’t not have a husband and a man that marrys more than one wife did not have a wife. men and women beware. court,tradition/custom and western marriages doesn’t wed/joins a man and women or men and woman at the same time.it is man + woman=marriage
oz
18 June 2009 16:08for nigerian police, there are some ISSUESTHAT NEED URGENT ATTENTION which they have to attend urgently and not these. well as their work be they may want to cut some some money from those men and later leave the woman to marry.
oluwafemi
18 June 2009 16:10man may have three or twenty wife like King Solomon but ihave not seen any woman having more than one husband
Let her face the law, good luck to her
Ebiwonjumi Soji
18 June 2009 16:12Demola and Afolabi who claimed to be husbands of Okeowo must be criminals. A normal human being should not fall victim of such woman.The two of them has to be investigated. Where is Okeowo and the two acclaimed husbands leaving? Are they leaving together or separately? You mean they are fighting over 48yr old woman? What is there own age? They need tobe invetigated.
Uche Ibe
18 June 2009 16:14In as much as I find this case unprecedented and rather amusing. We must reconcile with the fact that Bigamy is a crime in the Nigerian Constitution. Anyone who had a Registry Marriage will remember being warned over and over against the illegality of marrying a second spouse. Interestingly, this law I believe also affects the men. i.e they cannot legally marry a 2nd wife after marrying a first one in the registry/court!
Wasiu2
18 June 2009 16:19WONDERS SHALL NEVER ENDS.
MAYBE SHE GET LUCK THAT SOME ARE LOOKING FOR.
MAKE DEM ASK HER WHO SHE WAN GANGAN
dunkwu okenye samuel
18 June 2009 16:27i cant blame the woman, how can a man marry a woman and she is going out with another man for that long without him knowing it. at least from her behaviour you will know, most atimes illiteracy is the cause of all these societal neusancies.
thank God our police men did not have anything reasonable to do, so this is another source of income to whoever may be the IPO.
na waooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Francis
18 June 2009 16:37Carry go Ada after all, na you go tire.
OLAJIDE OJO
18 June 2009 16:45WHAT A MAN CAN DO A WOMAN CAN DO IT BETTER.SO THEY SAY.THIS IS NOT THE END BUT THE BEGINING,SAID THE SCRIPTURE
rita
18 June 2009 16:53This country sef na wa, have they ever arrested any man that married more than one wife? haba so what is the big deal.
Nice that she broke the naija record. Ride on jare, i gbadun u. more pple are coming behide u to take ur steps, then all men will know whatzup
Zizi spain
18 June 2009 17:46Tribunal in which world are you living,no one is saying she cant follow any amount of men she want,but getting married with 2 men in a court of law is wrong and infact carries a fine,so dont say nonsense about the nigeria police when they are carrying out there duties vale.
IYKE CHYKE
18 June 2009 17:53THE TWO MEN ARE FOOLS AND IF YOU CHECK WELL THEY BOTH HAVE MORE THAN ONE WIFE, THAT WAS WHY IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR THE WOMAN TO FOOL THEM.
Truth
18 June 2009 18:07What do expect from the country that has no details of any of his citizen either birth,death or marriage details?
Sophia
18 June 2009 18:15I do not condone what Ada did but, there are millions of men who married in the registry and went on to marry more wives-
The police need to go after such men before they arrest this woman. People go to the registry any how to get a marriage cert.
to take to embassies, Are they sure that one of these marriages is not for such purpose.
preceelala
18 June 2009 18:19please am beging you in the name of the lord, am vacany can you apply for me to join the 2 available man. call me 08035218960
Lanre
18 June 2009 19:05The issue centres on the criminal code. Anyone who cares should peruse what Nigerian laws say concerning polygamy and bigamy.
Anthony Ndubuisi
18 June 2009 19:41Please, give us news. We are tired of these stories.
Tosin
18 June 2009 21:37People should think well before writing things on the net, have you ever heard of those men with many women going to magistrate court to contract the other marriages? They only contract one, and the rest are just girlfriend that have kids for them.
Doyin
18 June 2009 23:39The issue is not marrying two husbands at the same time. But this woman married two of them at Govt’s registry. No law will arrest her if she marries ten the same day in as much as she does it outside Govt’s registry. his biogamy.
Doyin
18 June 2009 23:40The issue is not marrying two husbands at the same time. But this woman married two of them at Govt’s registry. No law will arrest her if she marries ten the same day in as much as she does it outside Govt’s registry. This is biogamy.
Una
19 June 2009 08:03Rita hope you are ready to beat her record?
IRINKUNLE
19 June 2009 08:34Well, you all dont blame the woman…..but one thing is certain….when she puts to bed gets the child….the first , the second or the third husband ? what if you are one of the husband …wont you be thinking of claiming the child’s father especially when the child is a Money Spinner?
Pastor J A Odewale Boston USA
19 June 2009 09:06The offence (crime) is bigamy
while the practice is polyandry
OTANAWORLD
19 June 2009 10:54……THE DAYS OF NEW THINGS ARE HERE IN NIGERIA, WATCH OUT!
oscar
19 June 2009 11:53Our marriage registry should endeavour to conduct some background checks on their prospective ‘customers’ b/4 joining them. Sophia has a point.
WEEWEE
19 June 2009 11:59Police men please get ur money and leave the fools. Come to think of this case may be the first husband is not a real man otherwise if you fuck any woman well she will never leave you to maryy another man.
SAMUEL OLAKUNLE ARAOYE, MBA, A+
19 June 2009 12:04any man/woman can fall victim to bigamy; a perpetrator can claim to one spouse that s/he is on night shift, while telling another that it’s morning shift, and then tell the duo s/he gets home late due to traffic… t’s hard to beat a trustee to her/his deceit.
BIGAMY MEANS GETTING MARRIED MORE THAN ONCE “OFFICIALLY”; T’S A TYPE OF POLYGAMY/POLYANDRY, BUT PUNISHABLE UNDER NIGERIAN LAW…
UNDOCUMENTED POLYGAMY/POLYANDRY (i.e. with one legally married spouse, while the rest are NOT) IS NOT PUNISHABLE IN NIGERIA.
THIS LEAVES ALLOWANCE FOR CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS PRACTICES…
bigamy by woman/man is unlawful in Nigeria; men too were arrested in the past. those getting away with it are probably not reported/APPREHENDED.
ayo
19 June 2009 12:58This is roforofo fight [apology to late Fela Anijulapo-kuti!
You can’t blame Ada for coming out open. A lot of women are doing it in secrecy
bridget
19 June 2009 13:47leave story, some men are going to registary for them to get what there want, for example if there are to travel to any of the outside country, therefore there will use that as an opportunity to get there Visa.
omooba
19 June 2009 14:45whatz good for salami is good for akanmu! why not in low moral society like nigeria, she is only copying whats when do all the time.what men can do women can do too. abi,shikena,
cheers
Rita
19 June 2009 15:04Please I don’t think I have any thing to comment on this.Let equal right be shared between Men and Women.
If a woman remains faithful to her husband, the Man will cheat on her, if she gets a man friend, the man will cheat on her too, so the fact remains that women needs equal right, like a musician sang it years back. so carry on.
Abidemi
24 June 2009 15:21I just want to say, that she is not really looking for love or marrage life but she want to get something from them, so they should try to ask what her problem really is…..
this is what will happy on the last days