Funmi Iyanda has expressed her opinion on men who beat their
women, saying they should be excommunicated from churches. She also gave ladies
few rules and made them understand they are the captain of their own ship.
“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.
“Churches, if not so concerned with the bottom line of
patronage would excommunicate abusive men or women,’’ she said. Funmi got upset and made those statements when a Twitter
user with the handle @Moe narrated how a man almost took the life of his wife
who is nursing a baby and how her efforts to separate them was fruitless.
“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.”
