In 2011, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Kenya, Dr Chijioke Wilcox Wigwe, was recalled after his wife, Tess Wigwe, accused him of beating her to the point of bleeding. Their son, Nelson Wigwe, however accused his mother of blackmailing his father during domestic disputes.

Ambassador Wigwe, who confessed that they hardly engaged in conversations except when she needed money, told the Vanguard newspaper that,“The girl I married was famous for her temper and fighting ability.” Her continued faking of abuses was because she knew he would not want to leave their five children. He paid mortgage for her London house besides university fee as she pursued a law degree at Middlesex University.

On the fateful day, she accused him of physical abuse, Wigwe narrated that she fell while they were arguing and “received a cut. Mrs Wigwe used her right hand to rub the blood and smeared her entire face with it. She ran into her bedroom and took a camera and in the presence of my daughter and I, she photographed herself, taking two to three shots. She was shouting that she had got me, and that the whole world was going to see her bloodied face, that she was going to send the pictures to Abuja.”