A 17-year-old boy has relived his travails in his parents’ hands.
Erewa’s wife Mariam, a trader, and the other two children are no longer in Lagos. Marvellous is currently undergoing treatment. “The following day , I was at one of my friends’ place close to my area, but around 7pm, my father came and met me there; he said he has told me that he does not want to see me in the community or anywhere around. He beat me there, stripped me naked and dragged me from there to our house, less than three kilometres away. A lot of people tried to ask him what the problem was, but he did not answer them. When we got home, he used a dog chain to beat me.
“I went back home in the afternoon, my mummy insulted me; she told me ‘that is good for you’. I told her that a responsible mother will not say what she is telling me and that a responsible mother will not see her son go through what I went through the previous night. I later left the house.
Marvellous claimed that his parents always beat him, adding that he was never comfortable staying with them, because they are not friendly with him.