Risikat Azeez, a woman abandoned alongside her two daughters by her husband Wasiu Dada for having blue eyeballs has been trending on social media after pictures of her astonishing makeover sparked diverse comments.
Photographer Mofe Bamuyiwa shared pictures on Instagram on Tuesday of the woman and her daughters after a makeover.
Risikat’s husband in a chat with PUNCH had said that he had a fight with her because she was becoming naughty. He said he did not abandon them and that on the contrary he married her because of her blue eyes.
“I have been providing for her and the children even to the knowledge of her parents but they were not satisfied until they posted pictures of my children on Facebook, using them to beg for alms,” he said in Yoruba.
However, Risikat maintains he abandoned them after she gave birth to two daughters with same blue eyeballs. She said her husband was influenced by his parents and that he labelled her a witch because of her eyes.
“Things started getting bad when I had my first child and later my second child. He totally changed and he would shut me up and walk out on me whenever I tried to start a conversation with him.
“His parents even told him, ‘Will you keep on giving birth to children with this kind of eyes?’ He changed to the extent that he would leave the house for a whole week before coming back home. There was no food and no provision that I had to go to my parents’ place to feed.
“My parents later asked me to leave his house. Since I left till now, he has not shown up to ask why I left or ask after me,” she said.