See What Father-of-3 Did after Discovering His Wife is Expecting Triplets

Joseph Abbah, a 51-year-old father of three, who resides in camp 74, Anwai, Asaba, Delta State, has abandoned his pregnant wife shortly after a scan revealed that she is expecting triplets.

While speaking to a correspondent at Leadership News, the expecting mother, Mary Abbah, who is a petty trader, said that the doctor had insisted for a scan when she visited the hospital for the usual maternity checks, adding that her husband consented to her going for the scan and even provided the N4000 she used for the exercise.

”The following day I went to the hospital with money and after the scan, I was told it was triplets, and I was happy, unknown to me that my husband had a different intention,” she narrated.

Narrating further, the visibly disturbed woman disclosed that on getting home upon the husband’s return from work, she informed him about the result of the scan but “his countenance changed almost immediately.” She said that while she and her children had gone out of the house, her husband, who is a carpenter, was said to have told a neighbour that he was traveling to Benin-City for a contract that would last for three days.

She revealed that it has been almost one week since the man fled to Benin and when she contacted him, he bluntly told her that he had no money and that the triplets would add to his problems.

She further disclosed that she had been married to her husband for almost ten years, and that they have been encountering difficult times, especially due to the present recession as they moved to Asaba from Owo in Ondo State.

”I waited for three days I did not hear from him, I called his GSM line but he did not pick, until I took the pains to locate one of his friends who took me to Benin City, where I was that he had left where he claimed to have gone to seek for job,” the pregnant mother who broke down in tears said.

Speaking to a reporter on condition of anonymity, a resident of the area described the fleeing carpenter as lazy with evil intentions.

Also, sources close to the carpenter said he is always in the habit of complaining about not having sufficient sponsors, and had allegedly threatened to disappear from his house to seek fortunes elsewhere.

Supporting his brother’s action, Abel Abbah, however, said the wife’s nagging and querulous acts, allegedly drove his brother out of the house, adding, ”my brother may not be having money, but his wife’s worrisome acts, unnecessarily ways drove him out of the house.”

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