escaped from. You think it’s beter to go back than to endure life without the abuser, and that is why
some of DV victms go back to their abuser and eventually die.
I GAI ED MY I DEPE DE CE
I didn't want to become a liability to anyone,
hence I started hustling and struggling to
make ends meet. With the help of
Facebook, I met someone who provided me
with funds to start a business and I opened a
shop. There are nights where I had to sleep in my shop because I didn’t make enough sales to cover my
transportaton back home (From Ajegunle to Iyana ira afer Okokomaiko). There were also days that the
trafc on the way home would last for hours and because I didn’t want to be out late at night, I’d return
to the shop and sleep there.
I squated with friends for two years before I was able to rent an apartment of my own. Oh... The day I
looked around my apartment and couldn't sleep because I was in disbelief and it was hard to come to
terms with the fact that “this is MY apartment, I’m no longer squatng with friends or sleeping in my
shop and having mosquitoes feed on my blood". It took me a few days for me to get used to my new life.
Sometmes I thought to myself: “If I had killed him then, would I have had the freedom I'm enjoying
today?r. “If I had killed him then, would I be writng this artcle from the comfort of my home?r.
My dear sisters, you can make it Afer I lef, I kept trying my hands on diferent businesses. I’d buy and
resell anything (legal of course) that would give me daily income. Our people say a lazy woman hunger
go catch
I thank God for blessing me with a wonderful dad who taught my siblings and I how to trade as a young
girls.