"I are not looking for marriage for my daughters" Married mom says as she laments charge of femicide in Nigeria

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By Linda Ikeji
10 November 2026, 4:22 pm

A mom has mentioned she doesn’t need her daughters to get married.

Chief Omekannaya Oyinna Ogbonna took to Facebook to make this identified after stories emerged {that a} 24-year-old lady handed away, abandoning her 1-year-old twins.

It just isn’t clear what led to the girl’s demise however her sister made a publish stating that she could by no means forgive him for ‘making her lose her sister.’

Reacting, Oyinna, who’s a titled chief in her hometown, wrote on Facebook: “Igbo marriages oh!!!! I AM TIRED!!!!! The bad news never stops!

“Women can not even reside to a ripe previous age in peace as a result of too many males are destroying them bodily, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally! These males are ENERGY VAMPIRES, draining the very life out of ladies who entered marriage hoping to construct loving households!

“Yet, when we speak about their behavior, expose their misogyny, and challenge the pathology behind their treatment of women, we are labeled bitter, wicked, and anti-marriage! As though exposing destructive behavior is somehow worse than the behavior itself!

“Giving males the good thing about the doubt, ignoring crimson flags, and speeding into marriage have despatched far too many ladies to early graves. And society continues to romanticize marriage whereas minimizing the struggling of the ladies trapped in it!

“I DO NOT WANT MARRIAGE FOR MY DAUGHTERS! I went through too much to bring them into this world, and I will be DAMNED if any man born of a woman thinks he can lay a finger on my beloved daughters, whom I love with every fiber of my existence!

“I didn’t battle to provide my daughters life only for some man to make their lives depressing or minimize them quick within the identify of marriage! NEVER!!!!”