Man Abandons Wife For Having A Set Of Twins The 3rd Time (Photo)

Where is Citizen Emeka Benjamin Uche,
a Lagos factory worker?
That was the big question yesterday as
his wife, Ruth, 34, from Abia State broke
the news of his disappearance since
February.
Uche, 39, fled home when he learnt that
his expectant wife was carrying a set of
twins – the family’s third.
Mrs Uche was at the Lagos State
Secretariat, Alausa yesterday with her
six children, pleading for help.
Not many knew what she wanted as she
stood under a tree, close to the Press
Centre, carrying the babies.
Her first two sets of twins, much older,
stood close to their mother, and did not
in any way seem intimidated by the sea
of cameras and faces focusing on them.
Mrs. Uche was receptive when our
reporter approached her to narrate her
ordeal.
In 2009 when she first conceived, she
was delivered of two girls – Goodness
and Godnews. The second conception,
two years later, produced another two – a
boy and a girl, named John and Joyce.
But when her husband, Emeka, learnt
that the third pregnancy was another set
of two he fled their number 32, Awori
Street, Agege home on the outskirt of
Lagos to an undisclosed location in
Ikorodu, Lagos.
The third set of twins arrived last month.
They were named Daniel and Daniella.
Mrs. Uche said she could no longer cope
with widening needs for food, clothes,
drugs and school fees.
Her meagre earnings as a teacher in a
private school in Lagos can no longer
meet their needs.
Her story: “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 recalled 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 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.
Source: TheNation