[2023]DLHC16909 • July 24, 2023 • High Court
NYIKPA LUCY vs. SIMON QUIST AYIKU
JUDGMENT BY COURT: Let the petitioner be sworn to testify. Both do not wish to call any witnesses. S. O. B in English. Q: Give your full name to the court. A: Lucy Nyikpa is my name. Q: Where do you stay? A: Ho, Barracks Newtown. Q: What work do you do? A: Police Officer. Q: You know respondent. A: Yes. Q: How do you know him? A: He is my husband. Q: When did you get married to him? A: At Atimpoku Mckeown Temple on 3/02/2018, Church of Pentecost. Q: Where did you both stay after the marriage? A: Ho. Q: You filed this petition seeking dissolution of the marriage, why? A: We got married in 2018 and we were happy at first but I got to know he was cheating on me. When I got pregnant he denied the pregnancy. When I delivered I informed him. When he came he insisted to do DNA before he could accept the child because he accused me falsely of adultery. Later he and his family came to apologize. Since I got pregnant he did not take care of me as his wife. The baby was...