Actress Iyabo Ojo, singer Peter Okoye, and popular media personality Ifedayo Olarinde, better known as Daddy Freeze, have joined their colleagues in condemning the country’s rising cases of domestic violence.
The celebrities also urged religious leaders and parents to stop encouraging people to stay in abusive relationships rather than divorce.
This comes just days after the death of Bimbo Ogbonna, the wife of a celebrity car dealer known as IVD.
Bimbo, who accused the businessman of assaulting her for several years in 2019, reportedly died on Saturday as a result of domestic violence.
Celebrities have joined Nigerians on social media to offer advice and express concern about the cause of her death.
Ojo asked women to walk away from abuse when love is no longer sweet.
Peter Okoye advised them to walk away from violent unions, “Dont stay in any marriage that will lead to death! Getting married is different from living married! If it’s not working! Walk away!. PERIOD.”
Nollywood actor, Pope Obumneme, popularly called Junior Pope, advised women to avoid such men who resort to physical abuse and beatings on their partners as a means of escaping imminent danger to their lives.
Daddy Freeze said, “a living divorced son or daughter is better than a married child that has ‘kpaid’. Parents and pastors should learn to encourage people in toxic marriages to leave and remarry without the fear of excommunication.”