WITH neither party being
perfect, it is normal, even expected, for couples to engage in arguments.
However, given their reluctance to let go of the patriarchal outlook on life
that seems to confine women to a lower rung of life, certain men in the
Nigerian society seem to fly off the handle at the slightest prompting. They
subject women to physical and emotional torture following the slightest
perceived dissent. To such men, it is not just an affront for a woman to have a
contrary opinion to her husband’s, it is something close to treachery. This
warped outlook on life seems to have underlined the terrible case of a man who,
in a fit of madness, clubbed his own baby to death in Abeokuta, Ogun State,
recently. According to reports, a heated argument between a couple resident in
the Elega area of Abeokuta turned tragic when the husband, identified as
Olamide, mistakenly struck his one-year-old son with an iron rod intended for
his wife, leading to the child’s death!
