Dr. Pamela Iwudiaba, a staff of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakiliki, Ebonyi State has dragged her estranged husband, Dr. Ndudim Chukwu Obeka to court over his threats to kill her.
She also dragged along the commissioner of police in Ebonyi State for allegedly infringing upon her fundamental rights and is asking for an injunction restraining the husband from further threatening her, and the court to order him to pay the sum of N50,000,000 (fifty million) to her as damages and compensation for infringement on her right to dignity of person.
In a suit, which she filed at the Federal High Court sitting in Abakiliki, Pamela claimed that she was arrested and detained by the police on the instance of her husband over matrimonial matters and while at the police headquarters, Abakiliki, she was subjected to all sorts of inhuman and degrading treatment, adding that the police refused to allow her change her sanitary pad, leaving her body to be soaked with blood.
According to her, she discovered after their wedding that her husband was already married and had a child. Barely 2 months into the marriage, her husband began to taunt and insult her that she’d not gotten pregnant.
One night, he started insulting her that she was infertile and she suggested they go for fertility test, he then pounced on her and began to strangle her to the point she became unconscious.
Speaking to journalists on her plight, she said she just returned from a medical treatment in London after her husband strangled her, insisting that her life is now in constant danger owing to threats from some strange faces suspected to be working for her husband.
“I feel so unsafe here every day, strange faces are following me around. It took the intervention of the First Lady of Ebonyi State, before he allowed me to collect my personal effects. I plead with concerned Nigerians to come to my aid so that I will be transferred to another state before they kill me”, she said.
She added that the marriage is now in the process of annulment for deceit and misrepresentation.
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