A Nigerian woman, Quenny Ogechukwu, has walked out of her marriage after what she described as four years of “physical assault, fear, suffering, tears and embarrassment.”
Ogechukwu, who disclosed this in a Facebook post on Saturday, April 5, 2025, recalled the journey that left her traumatized and mentally drained.
According to Ogechukwu, her husband, Offorbuike Ernest Ogbuyeme, allegedly locked her out of the house at slightest provocation, poured hot tea on her face and beat her in public even while carrying a sick baby.
She further alleged that Offorbuike was assaulting her during courtship but she still went ahead with the marriage because of what people would say.
According to her, Offorbuike threatened to kïll her and go to jail. She said he said he would make sure that she is not alive to see him in prison.
“Yesterday, 4th April, 2025. I mustered the courage to leave an abusive marriage, Again,” she wrote.
I’m broke, scared and uncertain about what the future holds for me moving forward but for now I don’t think there’s anything more scary than living with a man who thinks it’s ok to pour hot tea on my face because he’s angry, a man who thinks it’s ok to put his hands tightly on my throat and choke me so much that his fingers dig into my skin and make a mark; just because I’m “rebellious” (according to him), a man who threatened to kïll me and go to jail but “he will make sure that I’m not alive to see him going to jail” , a man who slaps me and throws weapons at me just because he’s angry or there’s a disagreement.
Source: Linda Ikeji
