Over the failed move by the Nigeria Police and their marriage sponsors to intervene in the case of gross domestic violence (wife battering in which Christina lost two pregnancies, also while beating her, her hairs pulled to the very level that she had to go on low-cut), undue interference in a marriage by the mother-in-law, abduction of her two daughters and restraining her from knowing of their where about nor seeing them, seized academic papers, traveling passports, Canadian residential documents alongside her personal belongings; Christina Onwuliri the estranged daughter in-law to Lady Viola Onwuliri, wife of Late Professor Celestine Onwuliri, and Nigeria's Minister of state Foreign Affairs and later State Education, in Ex - President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, have accused her mother in-law, of undue interference in her marriage, in which the mother - in-law imposed decisions on the young couple. Christina has called on the Human Rights Commission to investigate and intervene the matter.
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Christina and Hubby Chukwuemeka Onwuliri |
Five years after their marriage, Christina said it’s been war between herself, her mother in-law lady Viola Onwuliri and her husband Chukwuemeka Osmond Eleihe Onwuliri over lady Viola Onwuliri's undue and unhealthy interference in the relationship of her children’s marriages. “Since our marriage was contracted, my mother in-law has continually decided what happens in my home, thereby having undue and unhealthy interference in the relationship with my husband. She said.
“Between 2011 and 2014, while I was living in Port Harcourt with my husband, he physically and mentally abused me. For example, when arguments concerning on way forward in the marriage, he gets infuriated and physically beats me and locks me up in the toilet for as long as he wishes,” she stated.
As informed, the current happenings which has escalated to the very level of the daughter in-law being locked out of her matrimonial home by her husband after being manhandled and abused by him has been a matter of review before the Nigeria Police and Human Rights office in Abuja. Not only that the former Minister allegedly influenced the reason to what made her son to lock his wife out of their matrimonial home and took possession of her two grand children.
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lady Viola Onwuliri |
“In another interference of my mother in-law, she said that my husband is not obliged to keep me in Canada where we based or elsewhere in the world. And after this encounter with her, my husband told me we will be visiting Nigeria in February. I had no misgivings about it.
“When we arrived the family house in Owerri, I noticed the presence of a Catholic priest, a serving Honourable member of the State House of Assembly and few others that I don’t know their names. Later, I noticed that my husband picked up a bag and was leaving without prior information to me. Cautiously, I approached him to know where he was going, but to my greatest surprise, he violently pushed me into a room and locked me up.
“At that point, I saw those men taking my children away without my consent. Then, I started screaming and was helpless but had no option than to start breaking the window panes in the room to get myself out. When they saw I was breaking the glasses, one of the drivers opened the door and I came out shouting for help, and then my children were nowhere to be found.”
The Onwuliri's in response to the accusations brought against them tagged Christina a 'Mad woman' whom the family has done everything to alleviate from her poverty background, including securing an academic job for her father. This claim was however disputed as recent publication by Ugochukwu Favour-Mayor, who paid Christina a visit in her father's house in Owerri - Imo state capital, revealed that Christina showed no signs of mental ailment, also that Christina's father have been in Imo State University’s Faculty of Engineering since 2006.
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Christina and her father |
In a quick move to rate her an ex-wife against the threat of rising media reports and reactions in her favour, news revealed that the Onwuliri family had served a divorce notice to Christina.