While advocating against marital abuse, TV presenter and activist
Funmi Iyanda during the week suggested that abusive men be
excommunicated.
“No family/church/institution should encourage a
daughter to return to an abusive relationship/marriage. If you touch my
child, l will kill you. ‘Girls, rule 1. There are no princes anywhere
waiting to rescue you. You own and owe you; not him or anyone else.
Leave at first slap’” she tweeted.
Funmi’s tweets were in response to that of a Twitter user, @Moe, who was an eyewitness to a violent couple scene.
Narrating her ordeal, Moe said “My hands are shaking. I have never
seen a woman being beaten like that in my entire life. I have never. I
was driving when I noticed strange movements inside a car that was
driving in front of me. Before it stopped so abruptly, I noticed weird
movements in the driver and front passenger seats. I wasn’t wearing my
glasses. As the car stopped, I came down (from) my car to holler. Next
thing I saw clearly. The man (driver) was punching the passenger so
hard. He was beating her so ferociously. All windows were up. There was a
baby in a baby car seat behind. I kept hitting the windows, At last the
man rolled down. At this time I was so furious.
“‘How dare you beat a woman like that?’ was all I kept saying. The
man replied ‘I am not a mad man that I will just be beating her for no
reason; ask her what she did. See my shirt. She tore it.’
“I went to the passenger’s side, opened the door and asked the woman
to come down. She said ‘I do not have anywhere else to go.’ She sat
there in the car, the man kept beating her. As he was beating her, he
kept screaming ‘How many times? How many times?’
“I kept begging the woman to come down. She just closed the door and
rolled up and he kept beating her. I kept hitting the car. Then, they
drove off. I don’t even know how to react. I am still on that spot,
trying to make sense of what I just experienced.” Moe explained.
Read Moe’s tweets below: