A popular television presenter, Tope Mark-Odigie, has said that a man owns a woman and has the right to do whatever he likes with her as long as he fulfilled traditional rites.

Mrs.Odigie during a talk show on TVC said that “we cannot behave like the westerners” because Nigerian culture demands that a man pay heavily before he acquires a wife.

She stressed that a man owns his wife’s body and has the right to define how he wants her to live adding that Nigerians have prioritized culture more than any other thing.

She was reacting to the viral reports of a Nigerian doctor who via his Twitter handle shared the story of how a husband connived with his doctor, to remove his wife’s womb because he doesn’t want her to have more children.

According to @DrOlufunmilayo, the man said they already have five children and “what does she need the womb for?”

However, Odigie stated during the show that as long as a woman has gotten married to a man traditionally, he has the right to do whatever he wants to do with her.

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According to her, if we want to do culture, then we should be 100% with it as traditional weddings have been created to give the impression that a woman is being bought by her husband.

“We cannot behave like the western world. We are in Nigeria and we are in Africa. We are a people that will tell a man to prostrate for hundred times to marry one woman. We are the one that will ask a man to bring a million Naira, to bring a goat, to buy everything possible because you are giving over that woman unto the man to take care of her, to make decisions for her, as long as you own her.

“As long as we still live within that rule, we cannot begin to form westernized. We cannot begin to form modernity. We cannot begin to form feminism. Except we want to expunge traditional marriage.

“So, we are going to do legal wedding which means that I am bound only by the laws of this marriage. Then if my husband does anything contrary to my legal rights, of which we have shared everything in the marriage 50-50.

“If you want to do culture, do culture. If you want to do modern 21st century family setting, then you focus on that. But you cannot eat your cake and have it. In our country, we have prioritized culture more than any other thing.

“A man has a right to decide how a woman should look.If he wants her to be slim or be fat he would say add weight. He would tell her I have bought you. I own you. So I tell you how to look. I tell you how I want your body to look. I control your life.”

See the tweets that generated the argument and the video:

A friend shared a very sad story with me. And they need your advice.

A man ran to my friend’s mom (the friend who told me the story) for help.
His wife is very angry & destroying things in their house.

Why: Husband connived with doctor to remove her womb without her consent. pic.twitter.com/xg4ln3qZ3t

— YourFavOnlineDoctor (@DrOlufunmilayo) August 22, 2018

The man said they have five children already and “what does she need the womb for?”

And that he feels she wants to “kill him with responsibilities”, so he told the doctor to remove the womb.

I’m honestly befuddled and confused. This is a different level of control and madness. pic.twitter.com/mdTx7cSnie

— YourFavOnlineDoctor (@DrOlufunmilayo) August 22, 2018

This one is beyond me.
I can’t even wrap my head around it.

If this was a movie, I will say the producer/writer is being unrealistic.
But this is Naija.

The person will be looking out in the comments sections incase you have any suggestions that may help resolve this situation. pic.twitter.com/4DxPgZtE2J

— YourFavOnlineDoctor (@DrOlufunmilayo) August 22, 2018