Respondent in person Counsel for Petitioner – We are ready to proceed as there is nothing at stake.
The parties do not wish to settle this matter any further.
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 born on 23/09/2021 but died on 20/01/2023. He only come after the child died.
He has denied me sex till date.
Q: He stays in Accra and you in Ho, how were you managing? A: We use to visit each other.
But later when I cook, he will not eat.
He will go out and come back late to the house.
Q: So what efforts have you made to settle your differences before coming to court? A: I informed his father and my parents too.
His father passed away.
After I delivered they came to settle the matter.
Q: So why are you here? A: After that they said there will be DNA, but came to apologize but after they left that was all.
Q: What about the respondent himself.
A: He did not say anything.
He makes no effort to resolve the case.
Sometimes he will call and ask me if I have done something, that is, if I had the child for another person I should say so or confess.
Q: So you are saying your marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation.
A: Yes.
Anytime I see him I feel pain and the loss of the child.
End of evidence-in-chief.
Q: You mentioned that I denied the pregnancy not so? A: Yes.
Q: If you could remember due to some problems we could not solve that is why I said certain things to you.
A: I lost the first pregnancy when they did not believe I was pregnant because his mother said I did not look like a pregnant woman.
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