We’re all in this country together so nobody can claim not to know what is going on.
If you go to the market these days, what you bought yesterday isn’t what you will buy today so when Sule began his trouble with me, I knew it wasn’t just because of the shi-shi he gives me. It was because I refused to have children with him!
See, I married Sule because he told me he would take care of me. I should have just settled for Adamu because at least, I would have been his only wife, not a second wife as I was with Sule! I didn’t want to marry Sule at all. He is too old for me but my father had promised me to him, so you see, I didn’t have much choice in the matter…
Sule is around 48 years old and he is too old for me because I am just 19 years old. Adamu is 27 year old and so is nearer my age.
So this is what happened.
I married Sule because my father said he would make a better husband than Adamu. You see, e Adamu is a bike rider, an okada rider and he has been saving money to buy his own Okada so that he would be taking all the money instead of sharing money with the owner of the bike he uses. Unfortunately, his bike was seized by council at Ikeja. So he had been spending money to get it back and the owner of the bike has been giving him serious trouble for the loss of the bike.
It was at that period that my father was just on my neck to marry Sule.
Sule has a wife, she is blind and at home all the time…I don’t know how she became blind but Sule works in a bank as security man and they have two children. So Baba said Sule has a steady job to take care of me but Adamu doesn’t. He put pressure on me and now see my suffering.
So Sule would give me only N800 every day to cook and feed 5 people in his house; me, him, his wife and their two children! Tell me, how will N800 feed even one person, not to talk of 5 people? The first day he gave me, I threw it back at him, I said, “What will this one do?”
But he went to report me to my father and Baba called giving me wahala, he said I should spend it wisely.
I went to the market and couldn’t even buy pepper, so I used dried pepper and cooked small fish…only one fish. I used the remaining for dawa and…money finished. We ate morning and evening, pot was empty!
Night came Sule said I should open my legs, I said no. You can’t feed me but you want to have children, what will you feed them with?
Sule started wahala with me again. He slapped me and I hit him back!
That night, I did not allow him to sleep with me. I didn’t want him to make me pregnant and me and my children will suffer the way his first wife is suffering with her children. I refused!
Second day, same thing. I collected the N800; bought the same things and that night our pot was empty again! And at night, I refused to let Sule sleep with me.
Then he beat me again and I told him I woud go to his boss in the bank and report him! That was when he stopped and said I should go back to my father’s house.
I was ready to go, just that it was middle of the night but he threw me out. I cried till morning because I was afraid robbers would come and carry me away or something bad would happen to me.
When it was morning, I left his house and baba, my own father refused to let me in!
He said Sule said I had been stealing his money.
What money? Money that didn’t even feed everyone in his house?
Gaskiya, let me hear something else please.
I will not go back to Sule,
Shi ke na!