- I’ve been begging for alms to feed our children since he left us – Wife
A man identified as Dayo Omotayo has reportedly forsaken his wife after she was delivered of triplets.
According to the middle-aged mother of triplets, Jumoke Omo Kubrat, her husband arrived at a hospital where she gave birth in Ilesa, Osun State, after she phoned him.
The woman, while carrying the three children, disclosed that immediately the nurses broke the news of the birth to Omotayo, an indigene of Ekiti State, he told her that he was going to get baby items.
Three years after Omotayo left the hospital hurriedly, he has not returned home and neither has his phone connected.
It was gathered that the runaway father of the triplets hails from Irapora community of Ekiti State and he is an artisan while the mother is an indigene of Ojo-Oba area of Osogbo, capital of Osun State.
The couple were said to have been living together peacefully in Ilesa before the arrival of the triplets.
Narrating her ordeal, Kuburat said she was bailed out of a maternity centre where she was delivered by kind spirited persons, adding that after her discharge, she had to beg for alms before she and her new babies could eat.
“I never knew my husband could abandon me. We were not aware that I was carrying triplets because we didn’t go for a scan owing to our financial predicament. So, on that day, he was not around and I had to phone him that I had been delivered. I didn’t tell him the number of the babies.
“When he arrived at the maternity ward, the nurses congratulated him and told him that I gave birth to triplets. I discovered that his countenance changed but I thought it is something we can pull together.
“He then told me and the nurses that he was going home to bring the necessary items for our babies. That was the last I heard about Dayo.
His phone was switched off and I couldn’t reach him. None of his family members was able to assist and they also claimed his whereabouts were unknown.
“Since 2021, I have been the only person catering for these triplets and it has not been easy. I have to carry them around market places and streets to beg for alms before we could eat.
“If Dayo can hear me, I want him to come home. They are his babies and he cannot abandon them,” she said.
Meanwhile, Kubrat has cried out for help in catering for the triplets.
She called on the government, individuals and groups to come to the aid of the family, just as she sought for employment to alleviate the family’s plight.
According to her, the three-year-old triplets have not been enrolled in school due to her financial predicament.
