‘I Am Fine If My Father Is K*lled Too’

A 24 year old man has responded that he is okay if his father is killed the same way his mother died shortly after she was called to bar.

“My father beat my mum a few days after she returned from Abuja, where she had gone for her call-to-bar ceremony”, Paul Odu said in an interview with Punch, saying that allegedly being subjected to severe physical and verbal assault resulted in her death.

“While she was away, he also beat me up.

“He called my mum all sorts of despicable names, including a prostitute and worse. He kept cursing her out…

“When my mother returned from Abuja, he immediately started insulting her, accusing her of sleeping with men during her stay in Abuja. She ignored him. Later that day, my elder brother came to visit. Before he arrived, my father had already called him, saying, “Come and carry your mother now if you don’t want her to die.”

“She stayed for about a month. My father didn’t want her to travel at all. He was uncomfortable with her going to Abuja in the first place.

Responding to the question: But he didn’t beat her the day she returned?, he responded:

“No, he beat her the next day. He deliberately took some of her belongings into his room, probably to provoke her and start an argument. When my mum went to collect them, he started cursing and insulting her again.

“At first, he refused to open the door, but when she asked, “Why can’t I access any room in my own house?” he opened it and began hitting her with his hands. He even struck her in the eye.

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“I rushed to the nearest police station to report the assault. When the police invited him, he denied everything and was released. Afterwards, he went around the neighbourhood telling some cult boys that I had beaten him.

“Later that day, those boys confronted me, asking why I had assaulted my father. It didn’t surprise me because he had often told his brother that I “beat” him whenever I tried to defend my mum from his abuse”.

On how the woman died, he said: She died on a Wednesday. She had complained of body pain and called her friend, a nurse, who came to treat her at home. The nurse promised to return the next day, but that was the day my mother passed away”.