31 year old Bimbo Danju 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. Continue...
“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.
Culled from Punch
