Mrs Edobor with her set of triplets
Jethro Ibileke/Benin
A 44-year old commercial motorcycle operator, Paul Edobor has allegedly abandoned his wife, Ugoma, after she gave birth to a set of triplets for him.
The 38-year old Ugoma who
hailed from Abia State, but lives with her husband, who hails from Irrua, Esan Central local government area of Edo State, has been married for 10 years and blessed with a boy and a girl.
She said: “We both met in Lagos and we decided to relocate to Uromi. We have been married for 12 years now and we have five children all together now.
The dejected-looking woman who came to the NUJ Press Center in Benin, with the triplets (all girls) solicited for help to care for her children.
She disclosed that she attended antenatal at a clinic, but gave birth to her triplets at a traditional birth home.
My husband refused to show up at home and did not pick my calls. He ran away because he cannot take care of the babies. He left me when I was in my labour. After I have put to birth, I put a call to him but he refused to pick my calls,” she said.
She added that since her husband absconded, she and her babies have been living at the mercy of good Nigerians.
All this time while he was away, people have been the ones helping me to the extent of buying me baby things.
I have been going to the marketplaces and churches with the babies to beg for alms. Wherever I go, people thanked God for giving me these babies,” she said.
Mrs. Edobor called on the state government and other well-meaning Nigerians to come to her aid to enable her to take care of her babies.
I want the government and every good-spirited individuals to come to my assistance to enable me to take care of my babies,” she said.
She appealed to her husband to return home, adding that she has forgiven him.
want my husband to come back to me. I have forgiven him. We have been married in the traditional way therefore, there is no going back,” she said.
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