A day hardly passes by without one hearing or reading publications of a
very young marriage riddled with so much trouble. It’s either the
couple wants o get divorce because of domestic
violence, allegations of cheating
or because one of the partner feel that he or she is regretting marriage. Young and beautiful lady called Sarah recently took to
social media to tell the world
that she regretted marrying the man she thought loved her. Below is her story.
Disclaimer:
Names of people and places have been changed to protect the
privacy of the persons involved.
My name is Sarah and I am in my late twenties. I got married to Ugo three
months ago but now I am convinced that I made a grave mistake by accepting to marry him. I can no longer cope with what
is going on as I am not safe. I
met Ugo through a friend’s match making. Ugo lives in Jamaica and when my friend who is related to him told
me her brother is looking for a
wife, I did not give it any serious thought. After my friend kept pestering me, telling me how much Ugo
loves me after she sent my
pictures to him; I decided to give him a chance. We started communicating via social media and went on
to speak on the phone. He would
call me and spend hours talking; telling me all the good things a woman would love to hear. He sent me his
photos and I saw was a handsome
young man. He told me he was into the importation of cars and electronics into Nigeria and was in the
process of building his mansion in
Victoria Island in Lagos where, according to him, we would live when we got married. He even
instructed his brother to take me
to the building site and said I should monitor the progress of work (a moved that made me believed he truly loves
me). He would send money to me to
pay the contractors and engineers, practically putting me in charge. His brother took me to his
hometown to meet with his family
and his mother was very happy that her son would finally settle down and become a responsible man.
I had now come to fall in love with Ugo even though I had not met him before
and was basking in the euphoria of getting married to him. Early this year, he came to Nigeria and we had our introduction and engagement but I
noticed one thing about him which got me troubled initially. He was always getting calls at night and
would sneak into the sitting room
to pick those calls. When I asked him why he would not pick calls in my presence, Ugo would tell me the
calls were from his business
partners and that I would not understand what they talked about. After our wedding, I thought Ugo would take me
with him to his base but he said
he would not want me to come to Malaysia as the country was very hostile. He promised to be coming to
Nigeria every month and that he
had plans to come back finally in a year or two. But the happy bubble burst for me when I found out that my
husband was not only married and
had kids with an Asian woman he lived with, he was also into drug trafficking. I got to know this
when some of his friends came to our house and told me they wanted to take some
documents that could be incriminating. I
wondered what documents could be
incriminating in my house and told them I won't allow them into the
house without my husband’s permission. One of
them got angry and brought out a
gun which he pointed at me and told me to cooperate or they would kill me there and then. They ransacked the
house and removed documents I never
knew were in the house. When they were done, they asked me if I had heard from Ugo and I told them
that he had not called in two weeks and that I
could not get him on phone.
That was when they told me that Ugo had been arrested in a drug raid and
was already in prison awaiting trial. They also told me that I was
to be Ugo’s drug mule as that is what he is
grooming me for. I was shocked;
thinking how could a man do that to a woman he claimed to love and even got married to? After the men left, I
did some findings and found out
that Ugo was not only into drugs but a cultist and ritualist. My life is in danger because those men told
me that they would be watching me
and that if I reported the matter to the police, they would come after me.
What would you advise Sarah to do?
By Pupwaya Timothy Dibal
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