The process and procedure of marriage demands that a man after seeing a lady he wants to marry either by both meeting each other and falling in love, or by being introduce to each other by another person called ‘afuta’ in Igbo Nsukka, the man will take his parents to go see the parents of the women for proper negation and marriage plan. This takes some few weeks depending on the preparedness of the man.
But this was not the case of a certain girl called Obageli in a certain community.
Listen and let me take you through this true life story.
When Master Chidi meet Miss Oby as she is called by her friends, he approached her with love and affection ,and sang the promised of marriage to her. Seeing the level of love showered on her, Oby could not hesitate to accept the proposal and in no distance time, Chidi came with some people whom he said was his parents and relations, and all marriage arrangement was made and concluded.
While at home, Oby started seeing another person in her husband quite different from what she got married to. Her back became a punching bag for Mr. Chidi who sees everything she does as wrong and inflicted injuries on her on daily basis.
This made Oby to go back to her father’s house severally to save her life, but Chidi will always go and bring her back promising not to beat her again, but never keep his words.
This kept happing till they gave birth to their first child.
When Oby gave birth to their second child, Mr. Chidi said that he did not tell Oby to give birth for him again and for that he kept molesting Oby and her child till his hit on the child affected the child’s spinal cord.
Taking the child to the hospital, the doctor referred them to UNTH for proper treatment but Mr.Chidi said he has no money.
When Oby had no option, she took the sick child to her mother in-law. After three days, the child died and was buried by Mr. Chidi and her family without Oby’s notice.
When the news finally scrawled into Oby’s ear, she cried bitterly to the house of her mother in-law where she confronted them for their evil act, but was advised by people to let them be.
Taking the case to the warfare department of a particular local government, the case was heard from both side and that is when Oby discovered that the people Mr. Chidi came with to marry her were not his parents.
It was just a fake marriage
Deception in its highest level
The only option is divorce.
Or what do you think?
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