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JUDITH ICHA
Some partners can endure absentee spouses but it’s not easy to cope when one’s spouse is not around all the time. There are many factors that can make a partner an absentee spouse, but it’s important to strike a balance in such a relationship to make it work whenever either of the couple is not around.
A 45-year-old man identified as Mr Uche Ogbibo who has been married for 14-year told
Sunday PUNCH that anytime his wife was away, he went to a beer parlour to relax.
He stated that if his wife was around, there would be no way he could go patronise a drinking joint, noting that he also took his children to church on Sundays and to fun spots such as the beach to bond so they wouldn’t miss their mother’s absence.
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Jesusegun Alagbe
In August 2018, after spending almost three years stuck in Libya en route to Europe, Innocent Imagbeghian was finally evacuated to Nigeria.
When he left Nigeria in March 2015, he sought to migrate to Italy for a better life. He said he sold his brother’s piece of land with a building on it in Benin City, Edo State, for N2m and used the money to facilitate his travel.
But he got worse than he bargained for. He was sold to slavery camps in Libya and forced to work on farms without pay.
According to Imagbeghian, the day he was supposed to sail across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Europe, they had hardly travelled far when the boat he and other migrants were in suddenly developed a fault in the middle of the sea.