Political activist and writer Reno Omokri’s former wife Tuokpe has accused him in public of domestic violence during their marriage.
The claims were made public in a thorough Instagram post by Tuokpe, in which she discussed her horrific experiences and emphasised that no woman should ever undergo abuse of any kind.
Tuokpe described a number of unsettling events in her essay, one of which was the horrifying moment she saw bloodstains on her pillow—possibly from an Omokri-caused eardrum rupture.
She also talked about the different assaults that finally prompted her to call the police.
Tuokpe criticized her estranged husband for seeking a partner who would conform to his controlling nature, contrasting her own upbringing with his alleged expectations.
She wrote:
“No woman should ever tolerate abuse in a marriage, regardless of how infrequent it might be. We often make excuses like wanting to maintain a complete family or staying for the sake of the children. But the truth is, your children deserve better. After the first instance of violence, which left me with a swollen jaw and weeks of pain, I made excuses, thinking I must have provoked the anger. I even had to endure seeing my daughter witness another slap. And there was the morning I woke up to find blood on my pillow from a ruptured eardrum you caused. The final straw was when you assaulted me again, leading me to involve the police.
“Now you claim to be happily married to a woman who doesn’t ‘quarrel.’ Good luck to her, because you always wanted someone you could control and intimidate. I was never meant to be that person; I wasn’t raised to be timid.”
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