LAGOS State governor's wife Bolanle Ambode has asked wives being battered by their husbands to retrace their steps and leave such abusive relationships and husbands before it becomes too late.
Speaking yesterday against the backdrop of the alleged killing of a wife by her husband, Lekan Sonde, Mrs Ambode condemned the issue of domestic violence, which she said had continued to rear its ugly head in the state and across the country. She also condemned the social stigma always attached to women who quit such violent relationships, querying what the society would say when they are killed.
Mrs Ambode made the denunciation in Alausa, Ikeja, on Tuesday, while commenting on the alleged killing that took place at the Egbeda suburb of the state, last weekend. She described as totally unacceptable, a situation where a man would callously turn his wife to a punching bag on the flimsy excuse that the helpless woman had either insulted him or refused to carry out his orders.
“How do you explain a situation where the man you married and one who claims to love you, would descend so heavily on you at the slightest provocation. For how long will this go on?” Mrs Ambode added.
She rejected the common excuse of societal stigmatisation of women who abandoned unpleasant marriages. Also, Mrs Ambode said domestic abuse should be moved from being viewed as a social problem to being viewed as a criminal justice issue.
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