BY CHARLES INOJIE
Perhaps there’s something we are missing here. Saint Obi, from information available, was abused emotionally, psychologically, and physically by his wife, which led to a multiplicity of health crisis that eventually claimed his life. Why are we not ventilating that aspect of the narrative? I think it is important we do because if the coin had landed on its flip side, hell would have been let loose. Indeed, social media would have been agog with stories of how a man killed his wife through sustained domestic abuse.
If we ever hope to win the war against domestic violence, we must be prepared to condemn it wherever and however it occurs. Since the terrible news of the unfortunate demise of our dear colleague, Saint Obi, broke, I have read with utter disdain, particularly from the female folk of how Saint Obi should have spoken out. Yes, he should have. As a matter of fact, his family ought to have acted swiftly when it was obvious that his marriage had become irredeemably toxic, but that failure does not in any way exculpate the offending party of the crime of domestic voliolence. Saint Obi is gone, but who knows how many more men are dying silently under the yoke of domestic violence from their wives?
If you have a relation/friend whose marriage is toxic and is indeed suffering domestic abuse from his wife and vice versa, and for reasons best known to them are refusing to talk about it, take the initiative and report to the appropriate authorities for investigation, and you just might be saving a valuable life.
Let’s stop the blame and condemn domestic violence for what it is.
CHARLES INOJIE
(A minority viewpoint)
