A man identified as Emeka Benjamin Uche is now wanted for
abandoning his 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:
“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,” .