Husband Assaults Wife Over N500,000

LUCKY LAWAL

The Executive Director, International Centre For Human Rights, Non Violence And Safety Awareness, Mrs. Ene Sarah Unobe, has condemned in totality the inhuman and degrading treatment meted on a single mother, 40-year old Ganiyu Kafayat, by her ex-husband Mr. Saudi.

According to the human rights lawyer, domestic violence against women must be fought with the same commitment with which robbery, kidnappings and Boko Haram are being fought in Nigeria.

While explaining what happened to P.M.EXPRESS, she burst into tears. She narrated that she left her husband because of constant assault. Early last month, she was said to have been assaulted by her husband which made her to travel down to Saki to complain to her parents that she was tired of the constant beatings. She was advised to leave the man to avoid him killing her in the process.

So she reportedly left him and decided to put up with her three children in her salon shop since she did not have money to rent an apartment. She further explained that the man refused to take care of his children and she was never bothered about it.

On Wednesday 13th February, 2019, unexpectedly her ex -husband visited her shop and asked for N500,000. Kafayat said that she was shocked because he never gave her any money and she had no such huge amount of money. She then told him that she had no such money and the next thing was for him to start beating her threatening to kill her. She narrated that he almost killed her if not for the intervention of neighbours and passersby.

Kafayat is appealing to the police who are seeing to the issue to arrest her husband and order him to write an undertaking not to come to her again.
Mrs. Sarah, who took up the case as a human rights activist, also said that no husband should hide under the ember of marriage to perpetrate violence against their wife.

“Domestic violence is a crime and not a family matter. Our NGO will pursue this matter to the end and ensure that justice is served. The husband who is the alleged perpetrator will face the full weight of the law” she said.