Violence against women

200 years like a year was really our prayers and all well-wishers when the clarion call of matrimony called on us. Little did I know that the fitness of a team should not always be judged by its pre-season matches. Most teams tend to keep their 'key' players for the toughness of the real season.

Here he comes again with local and international slaps and punches. The living room would have fit this brutal gender submerging act but the bedroom tends to be a godly ring where wrist jerking on this weaker vessel could take place-- Lamentation of a victim!

Who will I tell and who is ready to saviour the muted voice? A beep through the windows of my room in my loneliness educate my aching heart of similar occurrence in my neighbourhood.
The prey remains the same and the predator constant!

Media in Nigeria is replete with stories of Gender-Based Violence at home or in the streets.

A study recently commissioned by the Ministry of Women's Affairs and Social Development and the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) Nigeria, with support from the Norwegian Government found out that 28% of Nigerian women aged 25-29 have experienced some form of physical violence since age 15.
The study also reports that 15% of women experienced physical violence within 12 months preceding the survey further, the level of exposure to the risk of violence varied based on marital status, and that "44% of divorced, separated or widowed women reported experiencing violence since age15, while 15% of married women or those living with their spouses have experienced violence. The most common acts of violence against woemen in Nigeria include sexual harassment, physical, emotional and phychological violence, socio-economic violence and violence against non-combatant women in conflict situation.

The cause of this inhumane act cannot be pecked to a point but in Nigeria, it is strongly identified with cultural ideology where women are perceived as the property of their husbands. Thereby, intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, threaten and hurt women. Reducing them to sex machines punch bags to exercise their masculinity. Gender-Based Violence against women has left many women with indelible scars, many have their reproductive organs permanently damaged and many have died in the process.

Many efforts are in place already to bring this into abrupt end in our society, but, they are not sufficient. I postulate a re-orientation of who we are and created for which will permeate our respective cultures and ideologies. I trumpet a cause for constant sensitization against this unholy act that is living our women worthless and depriving them of exhibiting the essence of their beings.
I am not supporting feminism, at least, the one we are practicing now (because it negates the divine order for perfect home) but fair and good treatment of  women in the society so that the queen in them can find expression. Together we say;
 No to Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria!
God hates it, So do we!