A REAL LIFE STORY AND EXPERIENCE

PART 1 "I'm from Ideato south. My father is late and things has really been hard for my mom and us. My paternal uncle is responsible for my father's demise. He confirmed it, mocked us with it and told us that we will never breathe and ... Load more

PART 1

"I'm from Ideato south. My father is late and things has really been hard for my mom and us.

My paternal uncle is responsible for my father's demise. He confirmed it, mocked us with it and told us that we will never breathe and truly we have not been breathing.

My mom sells garden egg leaves at Onitsha. She's always suffering one poison or the other especially during planting and harvest season.

She has been moving from one church to another looking for solution that we still haven't found.

She couldn't afford to train us in school, we all stopped at senior secondary school except our lastborn who is still in SS1.

My eldest brother travelled to the north to serve one of our kinsman for over 11years now and hasn't returned home. He doesn't pick our calls for over 2 years now and we don't know the area he stays in Kaduna.

Our kindsman that took him told us that he settled him with 200k last three years after he served him for 8 years, so he doesn't know his whereabout.

My mom cries everyday asking God to bring back her son. We've tried different methods of prayers and spiritual works and end up spending the money we don't even have still with no solution.

My eldest sister started behaving strangely two years after my father's death, we overlooked it and before you know it it became more serious.

We've taken her to so many spiritualist to no avail. She's in the village now with my mom cos her mental health has been damaged, it hurts to call her a mad person.

Our second daughter got pregnant in 2019 and after 2 months the man that got her pregnant came, paid her dowry and took her to Owerri.

I was staying with my aunt at anambra who was seriously maltreating me. I couldn't tell my mom cos I know she can't take care of all of us if I come back home.

One day, my mom called to tell me that my sister wants me to come to Owerri with her so I can help her in their house. I was happy I was finally leaving my aunt's house.

When I got to my sister's house, she and her husband were living in a 1 bedroom flat so I was staying in the parlor, I sleep on the floor with the wrapper my mom gave me. My sister sells foodstuffs so every morning I go to her shop and come back at night.

My sister's husband doesn't do anything and doesn't contribute anything to the house. My sister does everything(before I came to help her)and he still hits her even while pregnant.

He slapped my sister in my presence one time for telling him that she had no money when he asked for it.

I called my mom and told her, my mom called my sister to hear her own part and told her to come home instead of dying there. My sister denied being beaten and as they ended the call, she started scolding me.

She said I wanted to destroy her marriage and will not tolerate it. She warned me clearly to stay away from her marital issues.

My sister and her husband became very mean to me, they will leave all chores including washing his pants for him. My sister stopped giving me food and seized my phone .

I didn't want to tell mom about it so I decided to leave their house. I wasn't planning on going back to the village either cos my mum will still look for where to send me just to lessen her burden....."