Title: The Chains of Love: A 2025 Tale of Polygamy, Power, and Pain
The sun had barely risen when Iyawo Kékeré felt the sharp sting of reality crack against her skull. Blood trickled down her face as her husband—the man who once swore before elders and deities to protect her—delivered another vicious blow. Her vision blurred, but the sight of her seven-month-old baby being snatched from her trembling arms burned clear in her memory.
This was not a tale from the past, not the whispered folklore of long-gone days. No, this was the year 2025. A time when love was still a battlefield for some, where the walls of a home were not walls of safety, but cages of servitude.
He was a man of means. A man of status. A polygamist who paraded his three wives like trophies, each carrying the invisible scars of his dominion. His empire? A school, a place meant for learning, for growth. But for the women who called him husband, it was a prison. He ruled with an iron fist, forcing them into labor beneath the roof he owned, rewarding them with a pittance—fifteen thousand naira, sometimes less, their earnings chipped away with each perceived misstep.
She had endured. They all had. The silent screams behind their forced smiles, the bruises masked by layers of cloth, the weight of suffering carried in their silence. Until, on that fateful night, the breaking point came. Her head split open, her dignity shredded, and her children stolen from her grasp.
But the heavens bore witness, and fate had its own warriors.
A call. A plea. A reckoning. The righteous fury of those who saw injustice and refused to turn away. Toyin Ndidi Taiwo-Ojo and her team stormed the fortress of cruelty, wielding justice like a blade. They rescued Iyawo Kékeré, gathered her children, and delivered her from the hell she had been sentenced to.
Now, as she stands on the threshold of freedom, a question lingers like an unsolved riddle:
How can a man who cannot love one woman with kindness, take on three?
The past has bled into the present. The stories of old have become the realities of now.
But in this fight, silence will no longer be the answer.
0 Comments