Wife Accuses Husband Of Engaging In Homosexuality With His Driver

Behind the affluent facades of the peaceful “Les Aigrettes” neighbourhood in La Somone, Mbour, a domestic drama of shocking violence was unfolding behind closed doors. MM Diagne, a civil engineer and real estate developer based on the Petite-Côte, has been remanded in Mbour prison after brutally beating his wife, FB Yatta Saye, and fracturing both of her jaws.

The catalyst for this explosion of violence, which occurred on Tuesday, was an explosive accusation made by the woman, a business owner. During a heated argument, she called her husband a homosexual and accused him of engaging in unnatural sexual acts with his own driver. He accuses his wife of adultery, stripped her in front of their children.

On Tuesday, around 3pm while their three children were napping upstairs, MM Diagne was heard speaking loudly on the phone in the living room. Hoping to protect her children’s sleep, Yatta asked her husband to lower his voice.

This simple remark ignited a firestorm. The engineer flew into a blind rage and unleashed a torrent of insults at his wife. The verbal altercation quickly escalated into a distressing scene, leaving the neighbours stunned. Pushed to her breaking point, the businesswoman dropped a bombshell, publicly accusing her husband of having an intimate relationship with his driver.

Driven mad with rage by this affront, Diagne lost all control and pummelled his wife’s face with violent punches, effectively shattering both of her jaws. With her face bloodied, completely disfigured, and her eyes swollen, Yatta was saved only by the swift intervention of relatives, who had been alerted by the cries of neighbours. She was rushed to a medical facility on the Petite-Côte and subsequently transferred to Dakar, given the severity of her maxillofacial injuries.

A medical certificate was issued, confirming a 21-day period of temporary incapacity for work. Before being transferred to the capital, the victim filed a complaint with the gendarmerie brigade in La Somone. However, upon attempting to return to the marital home, she encountered a private militia: her husband, still in a fit of rage, had recruited and stationed about a dozen “heavies” in front of the gate to block her entry. It took an armed escort from the La Somone gendarmerie to allow the mother to safely retrieve some of her personal belongings.

The case has taken a complex legal turn. The driver, implicated by the wife’s revelations, filed a complaint against her for defamation and for accusing him of “unnatural acts”. Meanwhile, after being summoned by the gendarmes, Diagne launched a counter-attack. While acknowledging that he had beaten his wife until she bled, the real estate developer offered investigators a completely different account of how the drama unfolded. According to him, the hostilities began that morning, when his wife allegedly poured a bottle of water over him on purpose, before knocking a vanity table onto their eldest son. He claimed that ever since he refused to grant her a divorce, Yatta has been harassing him, subjecting him to violence, and destroying his valuable belongings.

The Mbour public prosecutor’s office last Thursday charged Diagne with intentional assault and battery and was immediately remanded in custody.

As for his wife who remains in intensive care at a medical facility in Dakar, where she is being treated for a double fracture, the prosecutor has charged her with intentional assault and battery and will be taken directly to Mbour prison as soon as her clinical condition allows, pending a marital trial that promises to be highly volatile.

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