A young lady in Zango Daji Area of Lokoja, the capital city of Kogi state, has cried out for help as she shared videos of her father beating her mother.
The lady identified as Kolade Princess Damilola, said she had to speak up to avoid her mother’s being similar to “Osinachi”, a gospel singer who allegedly died from wounds sustained from domestic violence.
Narrating the incident on her Twitter page, she wrote; “Hello, everyone. I’ve hid this for long, but I can’t anymore; I’m so tired of living in my home because of the abuse and violence that goes on. I live with fear in my house. I have to speak up before my mum ends up like Osinachi. I can’t let my mum die at her age of just 43!!
“I’m scared and trembling as I write this, but I can’t let that fear keep from speaking up. I hid my problems so the world won’t know because my father is the only one I have who sponsors I and siblings to school, feeding and housing. I’m scared of loosing this things.
“my mum also takes all these pain because of his miney. She wants us to become someone big in life and that includes schooling and fathering. My mum gets treated like trash because of a man who doesn’t love her but ended up getting married to her.
“He beats her like a punching bag over little things that isn’t supposed to be an argument. Threatens to kill her, divorce her and thinks she’s a witch too. Insults her of her illiteracy, how her family are nothing to write home about.
“My mum is the only female of her parents with two younger siblings that aren’t well-to-do and an orphan after her mum died this year April. She gotten beaten this night because of a little thing that isn’t supposed to be problem…
“Monday 17th of October, 2022 at 9pm-11pm my mum was almost killed by a man she calls her husband. I recorded some of the videos while the beating, shouting and wailing was going on, he noticed I was recording and slapped me.
“Monday 17th of October, 2022 at 9pm-11pm my mum was almost killed by a man she calls her husband. I recorded some of the videos while the beating, shouting and wailing was going on, he noticed I was recording and slapped me severally.
“But I have got some others videos after I collected my phone from him. My mum has problems with her health too; I don’t if it is kidney or heart, but my dad never for once took her to the hospital. Her legs and hands and stomach gets swollen from time to time.
“Yet my dad still beats her. And This man is a pharmacist!!! I really need your help guys, to get I, my siblings and mum out of this man’s house… I know how many times I’ve contemplated or either running away or commiting suicide.
“My siblings cry whenever this happens, so many times I get report of them either chased out or beaten till they get wounds and scars. Below are the videos I could record… I’m posting this at 1:12 because I don’t know if I could still have access to my phone when it is morning.
“I need help, please! Housing, food, job and everything… I don’t want my mum to die or my immediate brother to commit suicide, I see him sad Everytime. My mum cries Everytime!”
Damilola has however in an update on the development accused the state police of trying to cover up with incident.
“The police here in Lokoja are trying to sweep the matter under the carpet here, they are blaming me for bringing it online and not attacking why he was beating my mum. My mum is also scared of coming down to police station to make a statement,” she cried out.
“They just want to end it just like that without doing anything, my dad was in their office talking to them for hours, turning their mind and support towards him. The police are opting to just settle it amicably and they want me to go back home.
“Please I don’t want this matter to die like that. I can’t go back to living back. He will beat me, seize my phone. We really need help.”
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