A photojournalist Francis Abiagan, yesterday said the only language his wife Joy, understands is beating.
Abiagan, who works with Business Day, was accused of beating his wife and stripping her naked by the campaign Against Impunity and Domestic Violence.
Abiagan said Joy who he married 10 years ago had made his life hellish since he brought his indisposed mother to their Ifo, Ogun State home.
A statement by the group’s spokesman, Gbenga Soloki, said Abiagan was alleged to have injured his wife and boasted that nothing could happen to him.
According to Soloki, Abiagan had been assaulting his wife for long with the couple’s family intervening to broker peace.
Abiagan who admitted on telephone that he beat up his wife, said he could not bear the way she treated his mother.
He said: “I have been married for 10 years now. My mother had stroke and no one was available to take care of her. I brought my mother to the house and since then, it has been war. My wife hates my mother with passion. My sin is that I accommodated all her siblings and they have turned my life into a nightmare.
“My wife has been devising means to deal with my mother. She starved my mother to the extent that I hired a help, who cooks for her. My wife was seen dragging my mother on the ground, calling her a witch. I have been enduring it but I could not bear this last one she did to my mother.
“My wife threatened the cook I hired not to come. The church has organised several meetings for us. They begged her to change but she refused. It is the language she understands I gave to her.”
