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This is actually not funny but i couldn’t help but chuckle when i read this news. A Nigerian man identified as Emeka Benjamin Uche who is a factory worker has made himself distant from his wife after he found out that she had delivered her third set of twins.
Distraught Mrs Uche Ruth was at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa yesterday with her six children, pleading for help, she said she has been abandoned by her husband and his relative since February.
“I met my husband in 2002 but we got married in 2008. We met in the village at Umuahia. I don’t want to leave the children and run away. This is why I want government to help us,” she said.
She recapped that she never wanted the third pregnancy, but her use of traditional means of family planning (counting fertile and infertile days) failed her.
“I was using traditional way of family planning where I calculate some days before having intercourse. It was working for me. You can see my first set of twins is four years old.
“You know as women, we cannot deny our husband that thing whenever they request for it. Whenever I mistakenly take in, he would say that I was pretending. Sometimes, I would go through long process to abort the pregnancy. After that, another one would happen. I would still have to go through the process again to abort it. When this one happened he still insisted that I was pretending until the pregnancy became obvious.”
“My Church was responsible for the payment of the first delivery. The church paid N120, 000 for the delivery of the first set of twins. The two deliveries of the twins have been through Caesarean Section for which we paid N120, 000 each. The last twins are through normal delivery”.
Mrs. Uche further explained that her husband, a factory worker in Iju Road, Agege, has since refused to pick her calls. She learnt that he stays in Ikorodu.
“Since I gave birth to the children, I have tried calling my husband but he would not pick once he knows that it is me. I contacted his mother and other relatives to tell them that he has run away. They promised that they will call back. Since then, none of them has called me. It is not easy for me at all.
“I know only two of his relations. One of them lives in Ikorodu; the other one lives at Ajegunle. My elder brother, who could have also helped, is very angry with me for giving birth to another set of twins. He warned me before not to have any other child after the two sets of twins, especially with the kind of husband I have.
“I cannot put my hands in blood shedding by committing abortion. I want Nigerians to help me because there is nobody to pay their school fees.
“I went for immunisation some days ago and I told them my condition and why they have not been seeing me. It was there that they advised that I should come to government. Government should please help my children; no one to help me with house rent, electricity bill, school fees, food and so on,” Mrs. Uche said.
Thankfully, Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode has responded to her plea for help and has directed his Deputy Governor, Dr. Mrs. Oluranti Adebule to look into her issue with immediate effect by making rehabilitation and provision of welfare assistance, both for her and her children.
This was contained in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Habib Aruna.
Thanks to The Nation, who made her plight public, the Governor who was visibly touched after reading the plight of the woman and her children, and while acknowledging the present economic situation in the country, noted that it is not proper for anyone to abandon his family, especially young children that they willingly brought to life, admonishing that it is only when such children are properly taking care of that they can achieve their full potentials in life and become responsible citizens in the future.
Thank God for her! I wonder what her Husband will do now after hearing this!
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