“Where will I start from ?” Mr Joseph Ogagbe, father of newly born quintuplets cried as he spoke to the Vanguard, appealing to the wife of governor Sheriff Oborevwori and other kind-hearted Nigerians to come to his aide.
“It will not be easy for me and my wife. Three boys and two girls. I heard the governor’s wife is a very good woman, she should come to our aide.”, he pleaded.
He said when nurses congratulated him at the hospital as the father of five newly born babies his instinct immediately told him to run, abandoning the children and the mother but he dropped the idea after he saw the jubilation at the Shepherd hospital, Edjeba, Uvwie local government area where the delivery took place on December 27, two days after the Christmas Day celebration.
“Initially I wanted to run away when they told me the number of children at the hospital, I wanted to abandon my family. I have not seen this kind of thing before, I only saw this in movies.”, he said.
Ogagbe a dock worker at the Warri Port sadly can’t eke out a living at the Port because vessels rarely berth at the place
He appealed to Nigerians to assist him with the job so he could earn a monthly salary to take care of his young family.
The wife, an Itsekiri, Patience, sells a recharge card at Ekurede Itsekiri, close to the palace of the Olu of Warri.
Ogagbe said he borrowed so much money to be able to discharge the wife from the hospital, adding that they were heading to Lower by Opay Street, No7 Omoine in Warri, where they would be till the weekend before they relocate to their abode at Ekurede Itsekiri.
According to him, the culture of Ekurede Itsekiri forbade him to enter the community with the quintuplets until eight days from the day they were delivered.
“My wife sells recharge cards at Ekurede Itsekiri. For no,w we can’t go to Ekurede Itsekiri because we were told that it will take eight days before the children will be allowed into the community. We reside at Okurede Itsekiri.