The increasing rate of domestic violence in Nigeria is alarming.
Domestic violence is a pattern of behavior which involves violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation.
Domestic violence is no respecter of ‘nobady’.
Even our so-called celebrities are not exempted.
The list is endless…First Patoranking’s former record label boss beating his wife.
Secondly, it was Oladunni Churchill beating popular actress, Tonto Dikeh.
The wind has recently blown the ‘evil spirit’ to Lanre beating ace actress, Mercy Aigbe-Gentry.
An article coined from a blog has some rhetorical questions which would have you thinking.
It reads:
“Domestic violence: Who is to blame?
I once had this quiet Medical Doctor as a neighbour.
On this faithful day, he closed early and on his way home, he saw his wife in a beer parlour owned by an Alhaji where drinking and smoking starts as early as 6am even during fast.
He only called her name and went home, sat her down to ask questions.
Shockingly, the woman told him she doesn’t monitor his movements so she doesn’t want to be monitored.
Before the man could utter another statement, a dirty slap landed on him.
Still in shock, the Igbo woman [huge] pounced on him on the sofa and started punching. [A woman he had never slapped for 15 years].
When he gained the strength to push her off, he gave her a blue black beating.
Upon the arrival of peacemakers, everyone was fast to accuse the ‘shameless Medical Doctor’ of domestic violence, bla bla bla.
Only for him to shut them up and started telling stories of what he endures including coming home late to discover the woman left the kids at home for night parties.
There was a comment on Patoranking’s manager that boasted her MACHO husband of 10 years has not touched her despite her RUNNING MOUTH. Just imagine!
The day her cup will full and the man RUNS his hand, she will run to bloggers with cooked up stories, everyone will believe her and start insulting and raining curses on the man without deep investigation.
Domestic violence in Nigeria
Some women can be very devilish, most especially those married to tolerant men, professionals and Men of God.
Are women abusing men emotionally or not which makes them to abuse physically?
No woman had ever said she ignited the domestic violence, threw the first punch, nor mention a single fault of hers.
Everyone believes the women’s stories only, why?
Are women innocent and harmless?
Why are the men always 100% guilty?”
NAIJA.FM stumbled onto a post which reads:
“If u can’t smash your phone when it’s hanging, then don’t lay your hands on a woman because you are angry.
“No woman deserves to be beaten.
“But should a woman remain in an abusive marriage ‘because of the kids?”
How Market? – Knegro @eya_knegro (Audio)
Often times, women who are victims ask questions like:
What will I tell my parents?
How will I cope?
Who will marry me afterwards?
What will people say?
…but would you rather remain in an abusive relationship or marriage until all that is left is your corpse?
The men the questions ask are sometimes always silent because they ahrdly speak. Women are always the first. LOL.
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