Borrowing a line usually recited by practitioners of my faith, it is with Jesus joy that I intimate you all that the Lagos state government has passed a law that sends any Mike Tyson oriented husband to jail, for battering his wife. Hurray! It was about time, you Know!
No doubt, this news must be sending shivers down the spines of every Lagos based pugilist husband and it lover but they shouldn't fear that they are alone on this one because it is only a matter of time before the remaining part of the country adopt this landmark legislation that will serve as antidote to the rising spate of domestic violence.
Two scenarios that may however fall out of from this undertaking make me want to appeal from the proponents of this law. Firstly, whose definition of 'battery' will the law enforcers accept whereby a report is made by a wife/female lover who obviously has no tell tale signs on her body to show that her man just finished practicing the latest 'hooks' on her? Judging from what we hear happens abroad where a woman set up her man to settle some domestic dispute, are we not about to see the opening of the floodgates to untrue and concocted reports lodged by opportunist women wanting to do their men in?
Secondly, if and when the man gets sentenced, can that be taken to be a prelude to commencing divorce actions? For the woman who gets to send her husband to prison would you open your arms and take back your man when he returns from sing-sing, hopefully a more civilised dude now, and be proud to show him off as your rehabilitated, ex-convict husband?
I guess only time will tell as we watch with bemusement at our dear nation plays catch up with other 'civilised' nations of the World!
No doubt, this news must be sending shivers down the spines of every Lagos based pugilist husband and it lover but they shouldn't fear that they are alone on this one because it is only a matter of time before the remaining part of the country adopt this landmark legislation that will serve as antidote to the rising spate of domestic violence.
Two scenarios that may however fall out of from this undertaking make me want to appeal from the proponents of this law. Firstly, whose definition of 'battery' will the law enforcers accept whereby a report is made by a wife/female lover who obviously has no tell tale signs on her body to show that her man just finished practicing the latest 'hooks' on her? Judging from what we hear happens abroad where a woman set up her man to settle some domestic dispute, are we not about to see the opening of the floodgates to untrue and concocted reports lodged by opportunist women wanting to do their men in?
Secondly, if and when the man gets sentenced, can that be taken to be a prelude to commencing divorce actions? For the woman who gets to send her husband to prison would you open your arms and take back your man when he returns from sing-sing, hopefully a more civilised dude now, and be proud to show him off as your rehabilitated, ex-convict husband?
I guess only time will tell as we watch with bemusement at our dear nation plays catch up with other 'civilised' nations of the World!
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