husband’s penis with a knife, has explained
why she did it. She told Saturday Punch…
“Please, kindly judge this by yourself.
As a pregnant woman, will I willingly
attempt to cut off my husband’s
penis? I ordinarily would not have
said anything. I did not realise this
will escalate to this stage. The case is
being handled by my lawyer at the
moment.
“My husband is not a hot-tempered
man but he gets angry once in a
while. He lied that he washes my
clothes. He only did that once or
twice when I was ill. We had a
disagreement that day and he beat
me up. My mother came to the house
and took away our son.
“Without telling anybody, I went to
my hospital and was treated. I did not
tell him. But when I got home, he
continued to harass me. He said I
must ensure his son was returned to
the house.
“I was so tired and I went to sleep.
But in the middle of the night, he
woke me up and asked me again to
produce his son. We started fighting
and he was beating me. In order to
escape his beating, I had to hold his
penis. I wanted him to leave me
alone. I held on to it until I had a
chance to escape.”
“Please ask him, which certificate is
he even talking about? When I
married my husband, he told me he
graduated from the Ogun State
University, Ago-Iwoye, but that he
had an accident some time ago, in
which his certificates were burnt,”
she said.
“When I married him, he did not have
a job. He said he was working on a
CD and all the money I made, I spent
on him.”
Speaking with Saturday PUNCH, her
husband told a different story.
He said, “My pastor had advised me
against marrying her because of an
encounter he had with her. Before we
got married, in a meeting with Bimbo,
my pastor said he asked her about
her past and my wife said, ‘How dare
you!’
“Of course, I did not believe my
pastor at the time because I was in
love. But now, I rue the day I met that
woman.”
Lekan alleged that his wife had been
behaving strangely since he lost his
job. He stated that he had done
everything he could to ensure that
she remained happy.
“I wash her clothes including her
underwear. Even without a job, I
ensure that the proceeds of my
gospel music CD are used to take
care of her and our son,” he said.
The apartment Lekan shared with his
wife is a mini-flat. Asked who paid for
the apartment, the man said the
house belonged to his father.
According to him, he was living in a
rented apartment in Ikorodu before
relocating to his father’s house in
Surulere so that it would be easier for
his wife to get to work.
Lekan explained that Bimbo was a
good woman at the time.
He said, “I married her legally. We did
a church wedding, went to court and
did the traditional wedding. But when
I lost my job, I realised that after a
little disagreement, she would rain
abuses on me and my family.
“She would sometimes destroy things
in the house. There was a time we
had a disagreement and she chased
me down the street with a stick.
During another disagreement, she
took my HND certificate to the end of
the street and dropped it beside a
gate. Neighbours had to plead with
her to bring it back.”
He narrated to Saturday PUNCH how
his wife attacked him.
“That fateful day, I was washing my
wife’s clothes. She reminded me that
she needed some money for
foodstuffs and I told her that God
would provide for us. Later, she came
out of the house and said she had
eaten noodles and had fed our son.
“When I finished with the clothes, I
was so tired because the clothes were
many. I ate the leftover of her
noodles. There were about three-
spoonfuls left.”
Lekan alleged that that did not go
down well with his wife who said she
still wanted to eat the leftover.
He said he had to go to the street to
buy bread for her since she said she
was still hungry.
He further explained that he had to go
out shortly after to get some money
from a salesman who handles his CD
sales.
“I came home and informed my wife
that I got some money from my CD.
She told me that she would like to eat
wheat and white soup which I usually
buy for her from a restaurant. I
bought that for her,” he said.
By that time, Lekan said the only
thing he had eaten that day was the
leftover noodles. He said the
remaining money from the CD sales
had been used to buy things needed
in the house.
But his elder sister who had a shop
nearby was to later give him N500
when she noticed that he did not look
like he was feeling well.
“I went out to buy rice and when I
came in and she saw me eating that,
she flared up. She said I lied to her
that I had no money. She was
shouting but I pleaded with her to
calm down so that my people around
would not hear. She replied that it
would not be well with the people.
She abused my relations and parents.
“The following day, a Sunday, I
swallowed my pride. I woke up and
asked which clothes she would like to
wear to church so that I could iron it
with mine. When she did not answer, I
left for church but came back after
the workers’ meeting.
“I got home and saw her preparing
jollof rice but I went out to buy N60
bread and N40 beans. Trouble started
again when she saw me eating that.
She said I refused to give her money
but I was buying food to eat. She said,
‘Before I say anything now, you will
go and complain to your useless
family.’ That was when I told her that
it was her whole family that was
useless. Had I known, I would have
kept quiet. She took the plate of
beans and poured it on my head.”
But Lekan said even though many
men would have pummelled such a
woman, he feared he might kill her in
anger. The matter died down, or so it
seemed.
Around 2am, Lekan said he received a
sudden and painful knock that woke
him up from sleep and realised that it
was from his wife.
“I knew she had decided to start her
trouble again. But I did not in my
wildest imagination think that she
could do what she did next.
“Before I realised what she was
doing, I felt a sharp pain in my
manhood. I touched it and blood was
gushing out. I screamed and my
immediate thought was, ‘Is this the
way I would die?’”
Lekan pointed to a kitchen knife in a
corner of his room. He said it was the
weapon his wife used.
The wound inflicted on Lekan’s
manhood was deep but it had been
stitched after he was rushed to the
hospital by neighbours.
Lekan said he is not pressing charges
against his wife.
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