Things
have definitely fallen apart in the home of Former House of Reps member
and Executive Director, Anti-Corruption Network, Dino Melaye and if the
story flying around is anything to go by, then the centre indeed can no
longer hold. His wife and mother of his three kids, Tokunbo has
abandoned their matrimonial home, calling for the dissolution of their
10 year-old marriage based on allegations of domestic violence and
countless sexcapades of the former lawmaker. According to Stella Dimoko
Korkus …
''The
drama between Dino and his wife will take a full week to narrate.they
had a lot of problems and each time they had an argument be sure that
his wife would end up in hospital being treated for injuries of all
kinds.she was a punching bag.
Aside
from allegedly sleeping with his house girl,which was one of the major
problems,there are also confirmed whispers that sometimes when Tokunbo
went to work he removed her pix from the house walls and brought in
different women in their matrimonial bed telling them his wife had
died,and even getting the domestic staff to say their madam was resting
with the Lord''
The
insiders continue ''for the past 9yrs Dino has been beating his wife to
the point that there are police records stating some reported
instances,she was five months pregnant with her second son widen the
beatings began,and it got worse.
she was rushed to Zanlin hospital in 2005 at exactly 10pm, and was treated for injuries on head he hit her with an iron rod.
In
October 2010,she was rushed to Wuse general hospital by the police
themselves after she ran in her bloodied nightgown with deep cuts on her
arms,the report says Dino used a plank to flog her aiming for the head
but she used her arms to protect herself and ended up with deep deep
cuts that needed emergency room attention.
On
September 25,2013 Tokunbo and Dino had an argument and he pulled a
silver pistol to her head and was seconds away from pulling the trigger
when his ringing phone distracted him,she took off leaving behind her
shoes.she has filed for divorce and wants custody of the kids but she
has not been allowed to see them or have any contact with them.
Insiders
say on that september 25th morning the altercation which led to Dino
pulling out his gun had to do with a dressing gown in the wardrobe
belonging to Dino,his wife attempted to put it on and the law maker
refused telling her that all the dressing gowns and perfumes he had were
gifts from his girlfriends and he did not buy them with money.the wife
allegedly retorted by saying she could as well accept gift from male
friends and Dino exploded accusing his wife of referring to her ex
boyfriend and asking her to leave his house,he pointed a gun to her head
and the drama ended with the wife running to the police station to
report to the commissioner of police and escorted back to the house with
five policemen who came to search for the gun with a warrant of
arrest.Dino was invited to the police headquarters and the same warrant
of arrest later surface online claiming he had been arrested because of
the Stella Oduah corruption case he was previously arrested for.
''Stella,can
you believe that Dino sacked three of his domestic staff because they
were updating Madam on the whereabouts and well being of her three
children but were later quoted as being nine domestic staff sacked for
being security risks? Dino has over 10 cars but if he has small issues
with his wife,he seizes all the car keys and forces her to either trek
or take public transport.if she returns home anyway after 7pm,she must
sleep outside the gate till he returns home by 1am his usual time and
when he gets back,just know that there is fire on the mountain''.
Different versions on why the marriage crashed has also emerged from the camp of Dino.
The
first version is that ''he caught her twice with her ex, he warned her
the first time but divorced her when he caught her again''
The
second whispers is that ''he caught her whispering on the phone with
her ex and he asked her why she was talking to him and she shouted at
him that she would not only speak with him but would f#*k him as well''
The
third version is that ''Tokunbo allegedly collected money from Stella
oduah and planted cocaine in the house and then went to report to police
to search the house.Some say it was cocaine she planted,others say it
was guns''
Concerned
friends of both couple are running helper skelter to ensure that they
settle well and the kids returned to their mother who is presently
living alone.
FIDA,an
international body for female lawyers has also been brought into the
matter to fight for the rights of the estranged Mrs Melaye who in her
divorce petition is asking for full custody of the three children who
have been seized from her.
On the other hand,the Lawyer representing Mr Melaye is asking for custody rights of the children as well.
Below is part of the reasons stated on the petition filed by Mrs Tokunbo Melaye (PETITIONER) asking for divorce from Mr Dino Melaye.(RESPONDENT)
FACTS GROUNDING THE PETITION
1. The facts relied on by the petitioner as constituting the ground specified above is as follows;
a. That
in the course of the marriage the Respondent has behaved in such ways
that the Petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with the
Respondent, the particulars of such behaviour is as follows;
b. That
the Respondent is a habitual and instinctive liar who lies to the
Petitioner on every available opportunity. Instances and/or particulars
of needless lies often told by the Respondent are as stated below;
i.
On many occasions the Respondent lies that he is travelling for
business or political reasons only to be sighted around town in the
midst of women of easy virtue.
ii.
At the very initial stage of the marriage, sometime around 2003, the
Respondent lied that he was on a business errand to the United Kingdom
and South Africa and abandoned the matrimonial home for weeks only to
come back without any exit stamps on his International passport.
iii. In the course of the marriage, the Respondent usually introduces himself to other women either as a widower or a divorcee.
iv. Any challenge to veracity of cheap lies of the Respondent leads to violent reaction of the Respondent.
c. The
Respondent abandons the Petitioner and Children of the union in the
matrimonial home for days without any explanation about his where about
and when he stays around, he keeps late night and when he comes back
home early hours of the morning, any complaint by the Petitioner earned
her slaps and blows.
d. The Respondent is rash and unpredictable.
e. The
Respondent, a very violent and wicked person, is a serial wife beater.
The particulars and/or instances of violence and wickedness by the
Respondent against the Petitioner are as stated below;
i.
During the co-habitation of the parties at DASAB Property in Maitama,
Abuja, the Respondent once beat up the Petitioner who was 5 months
pregnant for the fact that the Petitioner queried his late night
outings.
ii.
During the co-habitation at Zone 6, Wuse, Abuja, the Respondent broke
the nose of the Petitioner by inflicting a vicious blow on the nose of
the Petitioner. The extensive damage done to the nose required medical
care and plastic/reconstructive surgery to be corrected.
iii.
Also at the same Zone 6 residence, the Respondent on one occasion beat
the Petitioner with metal rod and on another occasion with an Air
conditioner connecting wire. On both occasions the brutality led to the
hospitalization of the Petitioner.
iv.
During the co-habitation at Owando Street, Wuse, during the term of the
Respondent as a Federal Legislator at the House of Representatives, in
2008, the Respondent used a wooden side stool to deal a violent blow on
the knee of the Petitioner.
v.
In 2009, while the Petitioner was browsing on her laptop after one of
the usual domestic quarrels, the Respondent suddenly and without any
warning to the Petitioner, snatched the laptop from the Petitioner and
smashed same on the Petitioner’s head.
vi.
On the 23rd December, 2009, the Respondent beat up the Petitioner and
in the course of doing so, in a moment of mad rage and recklessness of
the Respondent, the Respondent threw the Petitioner against the wall not
minding the fact that she was carrying the 1 month old baby Ruth
Gbotemi Melaye. The baby hit her head against the wall and sustained
injury to head.
vii.
Despite the fact that the Respondent knew of the injury his reckless
act caused to the baby, he abandoned the matrimonial home and was
nowhere to be found until the 3rd January, 2010.
Viii.
On the 1st of October, 2010, sometime between 8pm and 11pm, the
Respondent, during a domestic quarrel, smashed a wooden plank on the
head and hands of the Petitioner and subsequently chased her out of the
matrimonial home.
f. The
Respondent inflicts mental, psychological and emotional torture on the
Petitioner and rains oral abuses on her at will in the course of the
marriage, the particulars of which are stated below;
i.
Upon the slightest irritation or annoyance, the Respondent takes the
children of the marriage out of the matrimonial home for days without
the consent or knowledge of the Petitioner in order to deprive the
Petitioner access to the children whom he knows she loves so much.
ii.
On the 3rd day of January, 2010, after the quarrel that caused the
Respondent to injure Gbotemi, a one month old baby and the disappearance
of the Respondent from the matrimonial home, the Respondent resurfaced
in the home only to take all the first two children (Isreal Asiwaju and
Joshua Kinbati) away to an unknown place for 2 weeks without the consent
and/or knowledge of the Petitioner. This was to inflict mental and
psychological torture on the Petitioner.
iii.
The Respondent takes pleasure in abusing the Petitioner in the presence
of the children and domestic staff of the family by using expletives
like “idiot”, “fool” and gleefully uses other indecent and indecorous
language on the Petitioner.
iv.
The Respondent threatens to send the Petitioner out of the matrimonial
home at the slightest opportunity actually sometimes sends her out of
the matrimonial home at odd night hours so much so that the Petitioner
was living in perpetual fear of being sent out of the matrimonial home.
v.
The Respondent threatens the Petitioner that he would shoot her to
death and nothing would happen. To show that he had ability to carry out
this threat, the Respondent once showed the Petitioner his pistol with
live ammunitions.
vi.
The Respondent actually pulled a gun on the Petitioner on the
25th September, 2013, and ordered her out of the matrimonial home at gun
point. The Respondent flung all the personal effects of the Petitioner
out of the matrimonial home in the presence of the domestic staff and
subsequently packed some of the items and dumped them at the
Petitioner’s Uncle’s house at Life Camp.
vii.
The Respondent has cut off all forms of communication between the
Petitioner and the children from 25th September, 2013 up to the time of
filing this Petition. The Respondent, apart from restraining both
physical and telecommunication access to the children, has also warned
the authority of the School they attend from allowing the Petitioner
access to the Children of the union.
g. The Respondent is canterkerous and quarrelsome.
h. In the course of the marriage, the respondent has shown unquantifiable degree of temper and intolerance.
i. The Respondent has shown a high degree of infidelity and unfaithfulness to the marital vows.
j. The
newspapers and internet blogs are replete with the escapades of the
Respondent and the most recent of such reports of such philandering
attitude is the immoral relationship with a Theatre Practitioner
recently which reportedly produced a child for the Respondent.
k. The
Respondent is a very violent person who at will uses objects like
bottles, knives, planks, etc as weapons against the Petitioner.
l. The Respondent keeps company with women of easy virtue against the wish of the Petitioner.
n. The Respondent willfully disrespects the Petitioner.
o. INCOMPATIBILITY
a. While
the Petitioner is a quiet, easy going, honest, peace loving and home
loving person, devoted to her calling, the Respondent is boisterous,
canterkerous, dishonest, secretive and flirtatious. He is also boastful
and threatens the Petitioner with his gun and his ability to make life
unbearable for the Petitioner.
b. While the Petitioner is a generous person, the Respondent is a very greedy and selfish person.
c. While
the Petitioner loves children, the Respondent is a very cruel person
and practices his cruelty on the Petitioner in the presence of the
children and on the children.
Meanwhile,
here’s a letter sent by Dino Melaye's wife’s family to him warning him
to desist from further beating their daughter Tokunbo
Fabiyi-Melaye........This is really messy!
Mr. Dino Melaye
On
Saturday Nov 16th, elders from the Fabiyi family, comprising of our
father, Pa Ekundayo Fabiyi and his siblings Commander Lawrence Fabiyi
(Ret.) and Mrs Alice Ejiko, met with your parents and formally notified
them of our family’s position on your long history of assault, battery,
psychological & emotional abuse, grievous bodily harm, and threat to
life with a firearm to Tokunbo Melaye (nee Fabiyi).
At
that meeting, they presented a six (6) page document to your parents
cataloging in great detail, your abusive actions towards Tokunbo over
the last decade. They also presented a list of six (6) demands, which
our family expects to be met by Saturday November 30th, 2013. A scan
copy of the document that was presented to your parents is attached to
this mail. The list of demands are contained in the attachments marked
Page 5 and Page 6.
We
expect to receive before midnight on November 30th, written
confirmation, duly affirmed with your signature that you will
immediately comply with all of the requests. We also expect that Ruth
will be physically delivered to her mother's custody before midnight, on
November 30th. The letter confirming compliance should be scanned and
sent to all parties listed in the carbon copy (cc) list of this e-mail.
The delivery of Ruth to her mother's custody, the timely receipt of the
scanned letter confirming compliance (sent from your e-mail:dinomelaye@yahoo.com), and confirmation by me via return mail that your response is satisfactory, will settle the matter.
Should
you fail to meet these reasonable requests, we will be forced to seek
redress for the grave injustice meted out to Tokunbo in the courts. Our
attorneys have been instructed to commence with legal proceedings by
December 2nd, 2013 should we deem your response to our requests
inadequate.
While
we wish to maintain this distasteful episode as a private matter, we
want to make it clear that any attempt to distort this case through
public actions taken by you or your agents will be matched with
corresponding public actions aimed at ensuring that truth prevails.
For the Fabiyi Family,
Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi
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