COURT IN ANAMBRA, GRANTS MOTHER CUSTODY OF HER THREE CHILDREN, ORDERS HUSBAND TO PAY WIFE 150k EVERY MONTH FOR UPKEEP.

The Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court of Anambra State, sitting at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Awka, has granted one Mrs. Onyinye Enweugwu custody of her three children.

Mrs. Onyinye Enweugwu, a business woman in Anambra State, sought the intervention of the state government, through the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, Anambra State, when her husband forcefully took away her three children from her, beats her up, intimidates and harrasses her and also brings women to their matrimonial home.

Following Mrs. Enweugwu’s complaints to the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, Awka, the Commissioner, Hon. Ify Obinabo invited both parties for an alternative dispute resolution, which failed to yield good results.

Delivering a Ruling on the Motion-on-Notice, brought pursuant to the Child’s Rights Law of Anambra State, 2004, the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) VAPP Law of Anambra State, 2017, and under the inherent authorities of the Court, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Genevieve C. Osakwe prohibited the respondent, either by himself or through any other person or persons, from subjecting the first applicant, Mrs. Onyinye Enweugwu, to any form or acts of violence, intimidation or harassment, in any manner whatsoever.

The Honourable Cour ordered that the custody of her three children be granted to her and also directed the respondent to pay to the 1st applicant every month the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand naira being upkeep and maintainace of the children of the marriage.