This is one story that all right thinking persons will detest. It’s also a big slap on the revered traditional institution, especially in the South-West where the crude and uncouth man hails from.
For reason no one has been able to decipher, our Oba just loves to beat up his wives and most times inflicting serious injuries on the poor women. The last one, over a minor domestic squabble, led to one of the wives (Bukola) fleeing their matrimonial home and returning to her parents’ home.
Interestingly, now that the poor woman has eventually summoned courage and fled, the Oba is making discreet moves to have her back and with a promise never to hit her again. Unfortunately, the woman doesn’t believe him – knowing his true colour and penchant for resorting to violence at the slightest provocation. Constantly giving this woman as well as his other wives a black eye, he once punched one of them so hard that she lost a tooth. The fiery-tempered Oba presides over a town not too far away from the NNPC depot in Isolo, Lagos. His third wife whom he just battered is a graduate, unlike him.
One other interesting thing about the woman is that she used to be married to one of his subjects until he suddenly and shockingly lured her out of her husband’s home, married her and now he delights in daily beating her blue and black.