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21.07.2014 Feature Article

Wife Snatchers Abound Among Ghanaians Abroad

Wife Snatchers Abound Among Ghanaians Abroad
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There are several reported instances of Ghanaian men snatching other people's wives abroad, e g. in Europe, USA and Canada. I cannot make heads or tails of why Ghanaian men go after other men's wives, snatching them from their husbands in the end. What is the joy in their forceful taking away of other's wife?

Why is this ludicrous attitude a common occurrence among Ghanaian men and women abroad? It is painful when the man snatching your wife from you happens to be a friend or someone that you know and have helped in life. In most such circumstances, the husbands become very much aware of the imminent situation, but are rendered powerless by the women's aggressive and threatening behaviour. This is especially so when the man loves the wife and is submissively succumbing to the wishes of the wife in case he can save his marriage.

I am not in the mood to write a detail story about this bizarre behaviour of some Ghanaian men abroad as I had once published two lengthy stories about the abysmal attitudinal infidelity of some Ghanaian women abroad. These women are not only involved in extra marital activities, but also, they allow themselves to be snatched from their husbands.

I can today only offer advice to the women involved in such horrendous acts. When a man deceives you, takes you away from your husband, your marriage to the new man will not last. He will dump you a few years later. As he was easily able to persuade you to have extra marital affairs with him while you were still legally married to your first husband, so will he never trust you to be faithful to him? He will forever be living in fear of you, presuming another man can convince you to sleep with them. If you are that cheap, then he will not love you but only enjoy sex with you until he finds a perfect excuse to dump you one day.

I shall advise those men who knowingly snatch other men's wives from them for a reason or the other to stop. They cause a lot of pain to their victims. They cause a lot of pain to the children where the first husband has children by the woman they are stealing away from him in a broad daylight. In most cases, when the first husband senses the danger of his wife abandoning him, he tries to ward off the intruding man. However, the invading man musters courage not only to deny the allegation of sexual involvement with the woman, but also, insults the husband. In all such situations, the woman is always supportive of the new man.

Nothing is free; it always comes at a price. When you throw a ball at a wall, it bounces back. You will reap the fruits of whatever you sow; this is my message to those shameless men stealing their fellow Ghanaian men's wives from them.

Please parents do not entertain the disgraceful behaviours of your sons and daughters. Do not encourage your sons to snatch other men's wives. Reprimand them if they did that. Castigate your daughters if they were found to have allowed other men to snatch them from their husband.

Let us start naming and shaming such irresponsible men and women to end that obnoxious behaviour.

Rockson Adofo

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