The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) has condemned in strong terms the spikes in the cases of physical and domestic violence against women by their spouses across the country.
The President of the association Comrade Ladi Bala in a statement issued in Abuja pointed out that the ugly development is becoming worrisome, reprehensible, dastardly thus, totally unacceptable .
It is particularly worrisome to note that in the month of August 2022 alone, there were three documented cases of wife battery that inflicted serious physical injuries, mental torture, dehumanised sanctity and dignity of the victims by their husbands in the country.
NAWOJ affirmed that in one of the sad cases, the victim was killed in the process.
These cases include that of a Local Government Transition Committee Chairman of Nnewi North of Anambra State, who is being accused of committing violence against his wife that led to her untimely death.
It noted that the culprit has been suspended from office by the Anambra State governor and apprehended by the police.
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Also of serious concern is an alleged case of a man along with his side female lover who macheted his wife in River state but, now cooling off in police net at Elele in Rivers State.
NAWOJ took judicial notice of the most recent case of a female journalist, a mother of three working with the Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Yola, Nafessah Vandi, who was beaten to a point of stupor by her estranged husband, who inflicted various degree of injuries including dislocation of one of her hands.
The painful irony reveals that the wife beater, one Ibrahim Aliyu, a dismissed staff of PHCN has not been living up to his responsibility of fending for his family as he totally abdicated such to his his wife that turned his victim.
Painfully but, curiously, is the fact that he resolved to brutalize the wife few minutes after issuing her with a divorce letter as a parting gift.
This dehumanising development must not be condoled and tolerated by any sane and civilized society.
Comrade Bala emphasized that it was disheartening to note that in spite of the ongoing sensitization campaign on sexual and gender based violence aside the domestication of the VAPP laws in many states of Nigeria, some brute men are still in the habit of beating their wives and treating them as slaves, conquered territories and not as partners by inflicting injuries on them.
It is on this sad note that Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, calls on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State, to fish out the perpetrator of this heinous and barb
