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| FRANK MBA, POLICE FORCE PRO |
Recently a Lagos High Court in Ikeja sentenced to death
Akolade Arowolo for the murder of his banker wife, Titilayo, who he repeatedly
stabbed to death at their Lagos residence. The question everyone would
naturally want to ask, is why?
This incident is not an isolated case because there are so
many “Titilayos” who had been maimed or murdered in the past by their violent
and aggressive spouses.
Could a man be so frustrated to the point of killing his
wife and cutting her into pieces? Is he a confirmed drunk and wife beater? Why
don’t ladies see all these signals before walking down the aisle? Was it his
first time to beat her, why did she stay there? the questions are endless.
Battery, domestic abuse, spousal abuse, family violence,
dating abuse, and intimate partner violence, are some of the terms associated
with a pattern of behavior which involves the abuse by one partner against
another in an intimate relationship such as marriage, cohabitation, and dating
which involves physical aggression with the sole aim of inflicting pain.
Wife battery is not just a crime, it is immoral, unethical
and a clear breach of the fundamental right and the dignity of the abused.
