31/10/2025
MY MOTHER-IN-LAW IS A WITCH
My wife comes from a very traditional family, so I wasn’t shocked when my mother-in-law casually asked when we’d be circumcising our newborn daughter.
I expected my wife to immediately reject such diabolical idea. Instead, she smiled and said she’d “talk to me about it.”
“Talk to me bawo?” I snapped. Right there, I told her mother that over my dead body would anyone lay a blade on my baby girl.
That statement started a war. My mother-in-law stopped speaking to me. If I greet her she won’t respond so I stopped greeting her.
My wife begged me to apologize, saying her mom was elderly and meant no harm. But I refused — until her father, siblings, and even my own parents got involved. Everyone was asking the same thing: ‘Do you want to beat your mother-in-law?’
To make peace, I apologized. That’s when Mama said, “In our village, we circumcise our girls, that’s why they remain pure. That’s why you met your wife a virgin and all her sisters got married as virgins too.”
She didn’t know how much that statement broke me. Because what she called purity, my wife lives as pain.
I wish my wife wasn’t a virgin. I wish I knew she was circumcised before we got married. I love her but I swear I wouldn’t have married her
Since our marriage, Intimacy between us has been a nightmare — constant pain, bleeding, numbness. She was circumcised as a child, and it has scarred every part of her womanhood.
It doesn’t matter how long I finger or svck my wife, sometimes she’s just d3ad down there. It’s not even appealing to the eyes to look. Whenever I see her pvssy, I lose er****on. I have to pretend and imagine my ex’es to stay erect.
Three months later, Mama was still with us for omugwo. One day we left the house for a movie date — just a few hours out cos we haven’t really gone out since our baby was born.
When we returned, my baby was running a high temperature. Something felt off so I asked mama hope all is well this one baby is running temperature. She got defensive and said why won’t all be well? that it’s just small cold cos we’re always using AC
The next morning, as my wife and her mother bathed our daughter, I walked in — and my world stopped.
Our baby had been circumcised.
I froze. I couldn’t breathe. I was shaking, tears were dropping from my eyes. I felt something inside me shatter.
Mama was laughing and said it was “normal.” She said, “Your daughter won’t spoil. All the girls in our family are pure women. She herself was circumcised, her mother too and all her daughters and their daughters will be too”
That day changed everything.
It broke my trust, my peace, and my heart.
I told my wife to dress my baby up so we can take her to the hospital and as we were about to leave, mama held me, I pushed her, she held on tight, saying nothing is wrong.
Out of anger I punched her. My wife screamed and I pushed her into the car with our baby and drove to the hospital.
My daughter was admitted and my wife stayed with her. I came back with police and met my father-in-law, my wife’s brothers and sisters. Thank God the police was with me cos apparently they came to fight me
I arrested all of them. It took my own parents almost kneeling and crying for me to release them.
Months passed, but I could never forgive her for what she did to my child, and the trauma she forced on my wife.
One year later my wife took in again. I was overjoyed. We went for scan and it showed it was a girl.
When mama came again to visit us, I overheard her planning with my wife to “make arrangements” once the baby was born and to do it quickly before I found out.
That was the day I decided: never again.
No one will ever hurt my children in the name of culture and tradition
Mama only eats wheat because she has diabetes. She’s the only that eats it. Every other person eats semo or eba. I always buy whenever she visits. So, the night before she was to leave, I injected sniper inside the pack, shook it & kept it inside her bag
Two days later mama was rushed to the hospital. By the time we got there she was on oxygen. When my wife and I entered and saw her, my wife burst into tears and stepped out with our daughter leaving just me and her mom
I acted quickly. I removed the oxygen, placed the pill0w ova her face. She struggled weakly for what seemed like an eternity but it was just a minute or so and then she stopped. I quickly removed the pillow and put the oxygen back
When my wife returned, I held her and then prayed for mama for a second then led her out. We got the call before we got home that she passed shortly after we left.
Till today nobody knows what I did, and I don’t feel guilty.
I share this story because some traditions are not sacred — they are evil.
Female Ge***al Mutilation
(FGM) is not purity. It’s pain. It’s trauma. It destroys marriages, intimacy, and lives.
A real man protects his own — even from “tradition, religion or their family.”
Today, I have no regrets and now I can sleep peacefully knowing I avenged my first daughter and protected the second from that monster, that witch who birthed my wife.
Say NO to Female Ge***al Mutilation or one day a real man like me will come for you too!
The End
Ajebo Writer
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