During an Interview with Vanguard Correspondents, A Lady Identified as Ogechi Chidebe, has narrated how her husband drugged her during his visit and stole their 4 month-old baby. Ogechi lament that she met the father of her child in Onitsha when she was 25 years old.
According to her, around April last year, I met the father of my child. I met him in Onitsha when I just finished my final year exams and I was doing my clearance to go for service. We exchanged contact and started talking from there, along the line he told me that he wants to marry that’s I should take him to my parents
After much questioning, I took him to my uncle because at then, I was staying with my Uncle. So he came to see my uncle, stated his conditions and left. Sometimes, he came to Oka, lodged there and see me before he will leave. Towards September, I got pregnant for him when I told him, he started denying and said I am lying about the pregnancy. He switched off his line and we can’t reach him again. I left Oka and went to Lagos to stay with my elder sister at then I was 6 months pregnant.
“I gave birth this year May 30th. when I was pregnant, we didn’t hear from the father but when I gave birth, he started calling me and he began to apologize, saying he is sorry and he is ready to do the necessary arrangement. I told him that when he is coming, he should come and apologize to my family and he should come with his parents, he agreed.
“My baby was 2 months old when he and his people came, he told me that they are his family members. It was when he went to my uncle’s house, that he saw the baby for the first time. Since he started showing seriousness, my uncle told him to come with his father and mother.
“From there he started calling us on his phone, he will check on us once in a while and send money to us even though it is not often, at least he was supporting. It continued like that until last week Tuesday, when he told us that he is coming to meet me and my baby
“So when he came to Lagos, he told us to come and meet him in a hotel. On our way going, we climbed a bike when we arrived at a salon, he told us to stop there, so that I will do my hair because his parents are coming to see her. When I was about to do my hair, he will hurrying me that I should bring my baby, that he want to carry her out. I declined and told him that wherever my baby is going, I will also be going
“After sometime, I told him that I was tasting, so he went outside and brought a drink for me. I drank it and started feeling dizzy. When this was happening, there were no Salon attendants there. I can’t remember what happened again but when I woke up, I didn’t see my baby and the bag I bought I didn’t see it.
“I called him and he told me he is coming back, that was the last time I heard from him. On a fateful day, he called me and threaten that I will not see my baby again till the next 20 years and from now on, It is only on video call I will be seeing her”- Ogechi Chidebe added.
