A legal practitioner, Ndidi Iyamu, has accused her ex-husband, identified simply as Elakhe, of allegedly conniving with policemen in Lagos State to arrest and detain her 70-year-old father for hours in an attempt to take custody of their son.
PUNCH Metro gathered that after the couple’s marriage was dissolved by the court in 2018, the custody of their only child was granted to Iyamu.
The mother of one said ever since she was granted custody of the child, her ex-husband had been deploying different tactics, including using the instrumentality of the police to take custody of the 11-year-old child.
She said, “After the court gave me custody of our only child, the court allowed my husband to pay a supervised visit to our son. I allowed the boy to visit him twice in Abuja but on the last visit in October 2021, he held on to him, put him in school and also forged his birth certificate while the original certificate was with me.
“So, I filed a contempt proceeding in Lagos and the court gave an order that my child should be returned to me. So, I took the judgement to Abuja, registered it and the judge gave the order for the enforcement of the judgment and that was how I brought my son back to Lagos.
“But my ex-husband kept calling me. He threatened to deal with me and said it was payback time for all the petitions I wrote to get my child back. He also insulted my father for supporting me and told my sister that he was coming to Lagos to deal with my father to get his son back.”
Iyamu’s father, Victor, accused Elakhe of facilitating his detention at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, adding that he was at his shop when his daughter’s ex-husband stormed the premises with two policemen and started harassing him.