Written by Patience Nyangove
Thursday, 18 February 2010
ESTRANGED Finnish beauty of Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) chief administrator Libolly Haufiku, has accused her husband of assaulting and denying her access to the couple’s bedroom.
It has emerged that Haufiku, who is preparing for a historic legal challenge for his party against Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) in the High Court, will be frequenting the same court for bedroom politics.
Haufiku admitted assaulting the wife, Sandra Jakstaite, to an extent that she was hospitalised, in court papers submitted to the High Court.
“Defendant admits that he pushed the plaintiff out of his way when plaintiff unlawfully prevented defendant from leaving the common home for the evening to mix socially with a life long friend of his with whom he had grown up. As a result of the push plaintiff hit her head against the door frame for which she received stitches,” Haufiku wrote in his plea papers.
Haufiku countered that the wife got unruly and elicited unnecessary arguments whenever she had consumed alcohol, throwing a glass at him and at times disrupting him from attending official functions.
He alleges that his wife made it impossible for him to conduct his official duties as honorary consular of Finland by refusing to accompany him to official functions and on occasion locked him out of the house.
On the allegations of insulting Jakstaite, Haufiku admits that he insulted her but pleads that such insults took place during arguments between them where both parties insulted each other.
According to court papers filed at the High Court, Jakstaite accuses Haufiku of denying her conjugal rights, insulting, domineering and failing to communicate with her.
“Defendant emotionally abused plaintiff. Defendant regularly stays away from the common home of the parties without any reasonable explanation and defendant regularly requested plaintiff for a divorce,” she says in her particulars of claim papers.
Jakstaite is also demanding custody and control of their minor children, maintenance of N$2,000 for every child, division of the joint estate and costs of suit if Haufiku fails to restitute conjugal rights.
She accuses him of physically assaulting her on two occasions with the first time having to be admitted in hospital after the bashing.
Haufiku denied that he regularly stays away from home without his wife’s knowledge saying that he would be away from home on business or official functions or duties as honorary consular of Finland.
“Defendant pleads that plaintiff was always aware of his whereabouts and reasons therefore,” Haufiku said.
Jakstaite also wants the court to order Haufiku to pay her N$1,000 for one year after the final order of divorce.
“An order in terms whereof the Defendant pays all medical, dental, pharmaceutical (on doctor’s prescriptions), surgical, hospital, orthodontic, ophthalmological (including spectacles and or/contact lenses) expenses incurred in relation to the minor children,” she claims.
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