The economic situation in the country has caused many to know a biting poverty that is exacerbated by the lack of infrastructure and public services.
One struggling Nigerian man was glad to hear his wife had given birth but fled when he heard it was not one, nor two, but three babies she was delivered of.
Guardian reports
A bricklayer, Mr. Adewale Omole, has absconded from his home. He fled because his wife gave birth to triplet.
Mrs Abosede Omole, the mother of the triplets, expressed fear that her husband may never return home because of his inability to cope with the financial challenges. She is calling on Nigerians for help.
Mrs. Omole, who disclosed that the family had been blessed with the two children before the arrival of the triplets said they were living in Lagos before the scan revealed that she might deliver more than a baby.
According to her, “We were living in Lagos but when I was feeling very uncomfortable with the pregnancy, we went for scan and the result predicted twins.
Since then my husband has been behaving strangely and complaining on how he would cope with raising the twins. He asked us to relocate to Ekiti State, our home state and I thought his attitude would change.
But when I was due to deliver the babies, I could not afford going to hospital but went to
a spiritual home, Sabbath Mission Church, located in Ado-Ekiti with the hope of getting assistance from the Mission clinic, but when I could not deliver the babies safely in the mission clinic, they rushed me to Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) where I was delivered of the triplets on Friday, January 31 of this year.
“Immediately my husband who was already jittery of the twins heard that I gave birth to triplets he absconded and switched off his phones.
She said since the disappearance of her husband, life had not been the same again, as she, the two previous children and the newly born triplets now find it difficult to survive.
The woman who could not control her emotions while speaking to news men yesterday appealed to the state government, traditional rulers, politicians as well as other well meaning members of the public to urgently come to her aid as one of the triplets is having some complications, so that she does not die prematurely.
Corroborating her ordeal, the Matron in-charge of maternity at EKSUTH, Mrs. Adenike Oluyide said one of the triplets is currently battling with life at the Special Baby Care Units of the hospital and appealed to spirited Nigerians to assist her in any form to safe the life of the baby and the family.