Emeka
Uche, 39, fled home since February when
he learnt that his expectant wife was carrying a set of twins – the family’s
third.
Mrs
Ruth Uche, 34, 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 The Nation's 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
meager earnings as a teacher in a private school in Lagos can no longer meet
their needs.
Mad man...why not family planning after first 2 sets?
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