Bad news has almost become a regular feature of Nigeria’s daily narrative and recently, it’s been like a flood of it (pun intended). But the news of the ordeal of two-month-old Miracle Chikwe at the hands of his father in Owerri, Imo State, takes the flood of bad news to the realm of an epidemic. We need to find a moral vaccine — and urgently too.
Bad news has almost become a regular feature of Nigeria’s daily narrative and recently, it’s been like a flood of it .But the news of the ordeal of two-month-old Miracle Chikwe at the hands of his father in Owerri, Imo State, takes the flood of bad news to the realm of an epidemic. We need to find a moral vaccine — and urgently too.
She has also narrated how hospitals in the community refused to treat the baby before she eventually got to the Federal Medical Centre , Owerri, where the amputation was done.And so, little Miracle is now an amputee, with his right hand gone, and his father is still on the run.It’s improbable that the man’s cruelty to the baby and his conversion of a room in the house to temporary prison, was the first time he would be showing such brutality at home, especially towards his wife.
And while many are quick to point out financial dependency as a reason, and for good reasons too, we also know that the Nigerian woman’s reluctance to quit abusive unions surely goes beyond lack of financial freedom. Osinachi Nwachukwu made more money than her husband, but that didn’t stop her from absorbing every blow he landed on her, while wearing the virtuous wife toga.It also goes beyond not having formal education.
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