A 30-year-old corps member and housewife, Funmilayo
(real names withheld) has been battered by her own
husband, identified as Bade, who also allegedly poked his
finger into her eye during a disagreement at their home in
the Surulere area of Lagos.
Mr Bade was also said to have stabbed her in the face and
rained blows into her head and face...
Funmilayo was rushed to a health centre before being
taken to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.
Policemen from the Surulere division were said to have
arrested and detained Mr Bade, after which he was
released on bail.
According to Punch, the drama happened last Monday at
the couple’s residence in Kilo area of Surulere. The wife,
who is an Insurance graduate, said she had followed her
husband to his parent’s house on the day, and they had
returned around 8pm.
She said, “Immediately we got home, he said he wanted to
go for a meeting somewhere and I told him to return as
early as possible before they shut the street gate at 10pm.
“When it was 11pm, I called him, he didn’t pick his calls.
He also did not respond to a WhatsApp message I sent
around that time. He later picked his call and I warned him
that if he returned too late I would not rise up from bed to
open the gate for him.
“Around 1am, I called his telephone line again and I heard
a noise at the background. I overheard a lady talking . I told
him I was going for my NYSC Community Development
Service early in the morning, but he ignored me.”
Funmilayo, who already had two children for Bade, said
she returned to bed, but her husband did not return until it
was 2am.
“At about 2am, he called me on the telephone and said I
should come and open the gate, but I ignored him. When I
eventually went downstairs to open the gate, somebody
else had done it.
“He abused my mother and I cautioned him, but he said it
was my day of reckoning and my cup of iniquity was full. I
was in my night gown that time.
“He picked up his belt and started beating me. As I tried to
run away from him, I fell down . During the struggle, a
mirror fell on the floor and he stabbed me with a splinter.
He sat on me. I screamed in pain and shouted for help, but
nobody came to my rescue.
“He poked a finger into my eye and gave me several blows
in the face,” she said.
Funmilayo explained that she managed to bite Bade’s leg,
adding that it was then he let go of her. She said an in-law
rushed her to a medical facility in the area before she was
later taken to LASUTH for treatment.
The couple are now separated pending when the matter
would be resolved.
When contacted, Bade denied attacking his wife, adding
that she was the first to assault him.
“All she said was a lie. It was my hand that I used to beat
her and she was the one that used a plank to hit me in the
back and even stabbed me with the broken mirror. I have a
deep cut in my back and in the front. I slapped her. She got
a swollen face because she is plump,” he said.
Lagos Police PRO, SP Dolapo Badmos, said the police were
preparing to take Mr Bade to court when his wife came to
withdraw the case by herself.
All these husband and wife who engage in acts of domestic
violence against each other should seek for help to avoid
more grievous issues like taking someone's life. Violence
from either spouse is bad!
