Osinachi’s mother said she advised her daughter to divorce her husband and move on with her life. But the daughter responded: “What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”
The mother of Osinachi Nwachukwu has explained why her daughter remained in the 10-year-old abusive marriage.
According to a transcript of an interview, Osinachi’s mother granted the BBC, Mrs Madu narrated her daughter’s ordeal at the hand of her husband, Mr Peter Nwachukwu.
The mother said her late daughter insisted on staying in the marriage with her husband on the justification that ‘what God has joined together, let no man put asunder. This is despite the series of abuses she experienced in the marriage.
Osinachi died on April 9 in what is suspected to be a consequence of her husband’s serial abuse.
The well-regarded singer featured in the hit gospel song ‘Ekwueme’ which she sang with Prospa Chima, and another hit ‘Nara Ekele’ with her pastor, Dr Paul Enenche of the Dunamis International Gospel Ministry.
Narrating Osinachi’s ordeal, the mother said: “It is quite painful the kind of in-laws my daughter met, the kind of man my daughter met, and her painful experience in the hands of the man. I never thought something like that would happen.
“Ever since the man (Peter) married my daughter, she never experienced peace, even me as a mother didn’t experience peace.”
The mother said after her daughter got married, she didn’t set her eyes on her again until after 8 years.
She said: “When she gave birth, her husband never informed me that my daughter had given birth, it was some people that notified me.
“She didn’t disclose her ordeal to us at first. It was even outsiders that were telling me what my daughter was going through at the hands of her husband.
“Someone had to call me to quickly come and take her away from her husband’s place because of what she was going through.
The mother said when Osinachi gave birth to her third daughter, she received a call from her late daughter lamenting her ordeal in the hands of her husband and how she lacked care.
“Osinachi called her father, narrating that Peter told her that if she does not go home alive, she will go home dead.”
Osinachi’s mother said she sent her eldest daughter to travel to Abuja to bring her (Osinachi) and the children to Enugu.
She further disclosed that Osinachi spent one year and three months at her father’s house before Peter came back begging.
She said she advised Osinachi to divorce Peter and move on with her life rather than stay in the marriage.
“Osinachi opened her mouth and said that God said whatever has been joined together, let no man put asunder, and that she will go back to the marriage.
“I told her not to go back and that she should marry another person but she refused and said she has married someone and there won’t be separation. But when she returned back to her husband’s house, she was going through the same abuse again,” she added.
