How I discovered that my wife's boss is the father of our child

The confession of a mother of five that her boss was the biological father of her fourth child is now threatening her 25-year-old marriage, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

This is because her husband, Isaac Jemibola, a 57 year-old civil servant, has approached an Ikole Customary Court seeking the dissolution of his marriage to the woman, Olayemi,48.

Jemibola based his divorce plea on the ground that the respondent confessed committing adultery in 2002.

He urged the court in the petition filed on Jan. 21, to grant him custody of all the five children of the marriage.

The petition told the court that he married the woman in 1989 according to the native law and custom.

He said that “after retiring to bed on Jan. 19, my wife came to me and knelt down.

“She confessed to having extra marital affair with her former boss and that it was the ensuing pregnancy that produced her fourth child.

“My wife said she had met Christ and her desire to make heaven made her to confess based on advice from her pastor.

“She added that the paternity of the fourth child was in doubt since both the boss and me slept with her the same week,’’ he said.

Jemibola further told the court that he reported the matter to his parent who pleaded with the woman to reverse her confession.

However, “she insisted that she was following the dictates of the Bible.

“I purposely do not want to do DNA test because I do not want to hate the child.’’ he said.

Olayemi admitted committing the offence, but kicked against dissolution of the marriage.

“I did it because Jemibola was befriending another woman during the period which made him to abandon me for almost six months.

“Also it was the period that my boss who normally took me to work in his car made advances to me; both men made love with me at almost the same period.

“After some years, I discovered that the said child looks different from his siblings and out of guilty conscience, I decided to tell him the truth.

“I pleaded for forgiveness but he refused,’’ Olayemi said.

In her ruling, the President of the court, Mrs Yemisi Ojo, said: “In the interest of justice and in the spirit of promoting reconciliation between parties, matter will be adjourned to April 7 for report of settlement.’’