Basirat Oluwole, a middle-aged woman, told a Magistrate Court in Abeokuta on Wednesday, that her husband, Tajudeen, secretly kept the bones of one of their twin daughters months after she died.
Testifying in the court, during hearing in a divorce suit instituted against her by her husband, Basirat accused Tajudeen of engaging in fetish rituals and accepted that their 17-year-old marriage should be annulled.
She revealed that many months after the death of one of her twin babies, she discovered the bones, wrapped in paper, with the inscription 'Eegun Kehinde' (meaning Kehinde's bone), inside her husband's wardrobe.
"I want to passionately appeal to this court to help retrieve the dried bone of our deceased twin baby from him. The baby died before her naming ceremony, but her twin sister is still alive.
I don't even know where the corpse was buried," she said.
Tajudeen denied the allegations, but without addressing the issues. Both are, however, fighting for custody of the children.
The judge, Israel Fajebe, declined to address the rituals allegations, saying that the court's role is only to address matrimonial affairs. He subsequently dissolved the marriage and referred the child custody issue to Juvenile Court.
