‘My husband abandoned me with six children’

“My husband left me after he realised that I was carrying the pregnancy of another set of twins. We already have two sets of twins before this new set of twins.

“It is becoming difficult to cater for the children now. Now, I am left with six children with no husband and relations.” That was the lamentation of a 34-year-old woman, Ruth Uche, who stormed the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, with six children to seek financial assistance.
She has three sets of twins. Two sets of the twins were born through Caesarean section.
Apparently confused about who to call for assistance, Uche was moving around the Ministry of Home Affairs, crying for help. Strapped on her back was a two-month-old baby while she held another close to her bosom. The distraught woman said that she was looking for assistance because she did not want to abandon her children on the street.
The woman recounted how her 39-year-old husband, Emeka Uche, abandoned her after uncontrolled child births. She said: “I met my husband in 2002 but we got married in 2008.
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