Linda Ikeji does not do small things.
She’s either gossiping big names, fighting them, or fucking up, big time, mostly for the big pay.
Today, we are here for Linda Ikeji’s latest fight; the one she’s fighting with herself.
Remember that time Linda and Wizkid were lovey-doveying fighting and Linda talked about how she spoke up for women who suffer violence? She said;
This is not about Linda Ikeji. This is about abuse of women which has eaten deep into our society, so deep that it has now been accepted as normal. Men do it all the time and get away with it. So many women are battered by their husbands and they refuse to speak up because of the stigma. They refuse to seek help because they are afraid of what people will say. I am sorry, I am not one of those women. I refuse to be victimized. And as long as I have my voice and my platform, I will speak up.
(See? See? Linda is so great we are quoting her.)
So to show how much she’s about this women-must-not-be-battered life, she did something.
A woman (Ireoluwa) shared a Facebook comment on a thread speaking about domestic violence. It read;
Still battling with mine, comes home late at night. Beats with cutlass, especially targeting my eye. Parents warned me not to come back home because I chose him. Financially broke to move out and get an apartment. He tore my certificate. Drops no money. Still hoping on God to send a helper because I’m fed up. Two wonderful kids.
Note that the lady in question is still stranded under the roof of a violent man, violent enough to kill, considering machetes aren’t used for giving body massages.
But you know what the owner of the biggest, most read blog in Nigeria did? She put up the name and photo of the lady on her blog.
This is what it means. Lets say that post gets read by a modest number of 500,000. One of them might know her, or even worse, her husband, who might then decide to teach her a lesson.
So we skimmed through the comments on the post.
Past the men-are-dogs comments. Past the end-time-things people.
Past the-woman-had-it-coming yarns. And we found this comment.
If it found her neighbour, maybe it can find her husband’s friend, who might tell her husband, and…
8 hours after the comment went live, the post didn’t go down.
That’s enough time to cut a person up nicely, run away, and escape.
This comment is for the writer, Ade. You have a way with words. Well done.