Investigation: Why Some Women Stick To Criminals

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

For ages, it has been established that there has been some isolated cases where women were arrested for aiding their husbands in criminal activities, yet after their encounter, most times bitter, with the law enforcement agents they still remained faithful to their partners and the marriage.

P.M.EXPRESS moved into town to find out why those women were adamant and stuck to the marriage despite the stigma the criminal instances have wrath on them in the society.

Our correspondent in the process scooped few shocking lines from some women who had married notorious robbers in the past.

Three women who had experienced such revealed how they were involved and why they decided to remain in marriage until fate separated them.

According to the wife of a notorious criminal killed by the dreaded Bakassi Boys some years ago in Anambra State (name withheld), she said she married her late husband not knowing he was a hardened criminal until many years after that she was to discover and by then it was too late for her to either quit the marriage or abandoned her late criminal husband.

She said her husband was a known commercial driver who was doing his work dutifully and took good care of her and their four children.

She narrated that while he usually came back late in the night and went out early in the morning, she did not suspect anything until her husband had serious encounter with the police and went into hiding.

When it later became obvious to her that her husband was a notorious armed robber after reports of his several criminal cases, she attempted to leave but her husband warned her not to do so because it was a great risk on her side because she had known much of his activities.

Another woman, simply known as Nneka said that she knew that her husband was into illicit drugs business but she did not viewed it as a criminal activity even though it was an illegal business.

She said that when she started suspecting that it was not only drug business he was into, was when she saw assorted guns in their home packed in a sack but she was afraid to asked him.

When she eventually asked him, her husband was mad at her and she shut up.

Nneka said there was a time she contemplated quitting the marriage but she was so afraid because of her first encounter and the threat she got from her husband when she discovered the guns.

She said she decided to remain in the marriage until her husband was killed in Lokoja, Kogi State  during a gun battle with the police in a robbery operation.

Another woman, a mother of two kids simply known as Nonye who spoke on the matter, said she knew her husband was a criminal and an internet fraudster but he was really taking care of her and their two kids.

She said she did not know that her husband was into serious criminal activities until he was shot and killed when he arranged and kidnapped a baby, went to collect ransom not knowing a trap was set.

Nonye thereafter went back to her family in the village in Nanka, Anambra State with the kids devastated.

Some other women who spoke to our correspondent said there was no way a woman will not know what her husband was doing.

They concluded that those women knew what their husbands were doing but they remained there because of greed and comfort.

They said at the end, such women usually regret and get devastated once those men were bursted.