The estranged husband of Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe-Gentry, Lanre Gentry has yesterday revealed that he spent the sum of N9 million on the actress’ lavish 40th birthday.
The estranged husband while speaking to BON said he worshipped the actress and has had to put up with a lot of misconduct from her in the seven years that they had been married.
He said: “I worshipped her and I have deposited N8m at Benefit Motors to buy her a N16million Range Rover Evoque for her 40th birthday. I have also paid N1.2m for a hall opposite Sheraton Hotel to celebrate her big, but she has her eyes on other things.”
In reaction, Mercy Aigbe refuted the claims made by her husband who is allegedly on the run as she took to her social media page to lament her years of bitterness in the institution she called marriage.
The actress who accused her man of battery, assault and domestic violence wrote on her social media page: “Dear Lanre Gentry, it breaks my heart that I have to do this but as it is, you have left me with no choice. I had sleepless night because I just couldn’t comprehend why someone I loved, someone with whom I have a child will be hell bent on destroying me, I just cannot comprehend it.
“I read with tears in my eyes all the LIES you fabricated against me, LIES you feel will justify your inhumane act, LIES you feel will gain you public sympathy and LIES calculated to bring my person to public opprobrium…
“I am mentally unstable; that you have caught me with different men,; that I do not take care of my parents, that a man rented an apartment for me..lies all lies… “Dear hubby, I challenge you to back your claims with proof. Hmmmm, Lanre you forget quickly!…., you forget how I have laboured and stood by you all these years, even though all what I was getting from you was constant beating, harassment, threat to my life and threat to destroy my image if I dare leave you.
“You must prove all your allegations otherwise God knows I am going to add another lawsuit to the one on ground. “Although my team has been pleading with me to stay silent all this while, I have come to realise that you want to ride on my keeping mum.”
However, the Lagos State Commissioner for Women and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA, Lola Akande, has vowed to take up the case against the actress’ husband as she revealed that Mercy Aigbe arrived at the police station to make her reports in a pool of blood with several bruises on her body.
The state commissioner further discredited claims made by the actress’ husband regarding infidelity saying no husband had any reason to maltreat women.
She said while vowing to see the case through: “As for Mercy Aigbe’s husband, it is very bad. We are taking the matter up. It is going to be state against him. And other men, who beat their wives, we will stand against them.”