ews of the gruesome murder of Bilyamin Bello by his wife, Maryam Sanda in the wee hours of Saturday, November 18 in Maitama Abuja, came to light early this week. This was no ordinary couple. The deceased was the son of the ex-chairman of one of Nigeria’s current foremost political parties, PDP. The alleged murderer was the daughter of Maimuna Aliyu, the former Executive Director of Aso Savings and Loans Limited. He had left his previous wife for her, the rumour mill said. And his parents had warned him about his new found love and her violent ways pleading with him to abandon the union.

The details of the murder was even more bone-chilling I felt like I was reading a script from an episode of a programme on DSTV’s Crime Investigation. The channel where they unveil the weird and horrible lengths humans go to kill people and hide it? Yes, that one.

Unfortunately, a similar event occurred in Zamfara. An angry wife had in the heat of anger, stabbed her husband to death with a broken bottle, street style. Unlike Sanda, the second wife from hell somehow left her husband fighting for life.

I identify as feminist but most times I wonder if this feminist path was a sensible one to take because for all it’s worth, I have learnt that most battles in life are really just a test of power and influence primarily, as against everything else like gender or race in and of themselves.

But then again, these things are as powerful as a people make them and for the African society, the gender card was played repeatedly in the favour of men that some societies began and still treat women like second fiddle hence the need to speak up. So yes, maybe the feminist movement isn’t entirely a waste of a life time.

But this? A revolution, really? A feminist revolution?

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