Strange
but true! Emeka Benjamin Uche, 34, fled
his Agege,Lagos, home and remained incommunicado since February this year,
after his wife, Ruth, informed him that her third pregnancy was a set of twins
! - the couple's third set.
The couple welcomed their first set of twin, both girls – Goodness and Goodnews in 2009 and in 2011 welcomed another twins – a boy and a girl, named John and Joyce.
Ruth, who gave birth to the couple's third set of twins, Daniel and Daniella last month, was at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa yesterday July 2nd with her six children, to solicit for government's assistance.
The couple welcomed their first set of twin, both girls – Goodness and Goodnews in 2009 and in 2011 welcomed another twins – a boy and a girl, named John and Joyce.
Ruth, who gave birth to the couple's third set of twins, Daniel and Daniella last month, was at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa yesterday July 2nd with her six children, to solicit for government's assistance.
Speaking
with newsmen, Ruth said
“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" she said
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