Osaretin Victor Asemota, a tech entrepreneur, has described how a bride-to-be cheated on her husband-to-be before their wedding.
On Twitter over the weekend, Asemota revealed that the Nigerian bride-to-be paid one last ‘mekwe’ to her married boyfriend before her traditional and white wedding.
According to Asemota, who described the incident as his strangest in Nigeria, the bride-to-be slept with her side nigga in exchange for a monetary wedding gift.
To make matters worse, he claimed that the lady’s sister-in-law was aware of the conversation and even accompanied her to the side-nigga.
He wrote in a series of tweets,
“One of my weirdest experiences in Nigeria was a lady getting married and coming to her (already married) boyfriend for one last Mekwe between her traditional wedding and white wedding. This was to get a cash “wedding gift.” Dude was also sad to let her go. I was totally confused.
What was even more confusing was that she came with the sister of the guy she was getting married to who was her friend and fully aware of the entire “transaction.”
I gave up all understanding at that point.
Nigerians are weird.
The “low trust” in Nigeria is because everyone knows what they are also capable of doing to the next person without inhibitions.
It is why we fear juju more than the law.”
See his tweet below,
See reactions below:
@amara_orjiude: Common occurrence if you ask me. Heard the most disturbing and puzzling stories when I was an undergrad at UNN, one the stories included people I knew
@BasilYng: This scenario probably plays out every other weekend in Lagos
@iamisaacpc: Lagos slander will not be tolerated pls. We Lagos people are good people 🌚🌚🌚
@TriumphUgoji: Egbon, glucose guardians are the usual chairmen of the occasion.
After honeymoon, report for duty in Abuja.
@THEHFC11: Glucose what? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@HikeSeal: Okafor’s law 🤔🤔 doing its part since the 80s’
@OSAMO1: Rite of passage 😊
@NwaOnyenkuzi: Is a normal tradition among our young people. Some end of getting pregnant for the former lover which they pin on the hubby.
@Drken_: I watched the movie too!
Please is season 2 out yet?
@Drken_: Ehen na! The boyfriend must sign Change of ownership documents with his big pen before she moves on.
@pdauda: If someone wrote a decent screenplay based off of this and titled it “Last Mekwe” I’d definitely watch 😂😂
