A man
identified as Emeka Benjamin Uche is now wanted for abandoning h]is wife and 6
children over his inability to cater to their needs.
The
39-year-old factory worker abandoned his wife 34-year-old Ruth with their
children since February 2015.
The
woman said her hubby fled on hearing she is pregnant with the couple’s 3rd set
of twins.
Ruth
Uche brought the children to Lagos State Secretariat in Alausa yesterday
pleading for help.
In
2009, a year after their marriage, she delivered two girls, Goodness and
Goodnews.
2
years later in 2011, she produced another set of twins, Joyce and John but when
her hubby learnt that her 3rd pregnancy was another set of twins, he fled their
home at #32 Awori Street in Agege Lagos to an undisclosed location in Ikorodu
Lagos.
Ruth
delivered her 3rd set of twins last week and named them Daniel and
Daniella.
Mrs.
Uche said she could no longer cope with widening needs for food, clothes, drugs
and school fees.
She
said her salary as a teacher in a private school in Lagos no longer meet their
needs.
Hear
her story: Read after the cut.
“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,”
“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”.
“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,” .
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are billionaires in Lagos now looking to have just one.
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world self, fingers are not equal
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