What started like a relationship that would lead to marriage for Mrs Alice Ukange, a widow, has ended in shame and disappointment as her man friend, Mr Augustine Angwe ended up impregnating her twin daughters.
The story which was published by The Nation Online has it that Mrs Alice who lost her husband to Fulani herdsmen attack during the farmers/herders crisis in Nasarawa state, relocated from the village with her twin daughters, Philomena and Patricia Ukange and ventured into yam selling business at Assakyo, a community in Lafia, the state capital.
According to source, it was on the course of the business that she met Mr Agustin Angwe, an Indigene of Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue state at a local market in Obi Local Government, who also lost his wife and children to ghastly motor accident and was yet to remarry.
They two afterwards struck a relationship which later made Mrs Alice to relocate to Lafia to live with her new lover who had rented an apartment.
In an interview with the The Nation Online correspondent, the distraught mother lamented;
“It was Angwe who encouraged me and gave me some money to run this yam business, going from Nasarawa to Port Harcourt and Lagos. So I was always away and he took them as his own children. Little did I think that he could lure them to sleep with him.”
Alice believes that Angwe might have used a charm on her daughters to get them to sleep with him, saying: “How he was able to start sleeping with them so easily is what I don’t know. At 22 years, my twins are no longer kids. They are fully aware that the man is dating me.”
“It is unthinkable and unbelievable. He was visiting Philomina in Akwanga and using the opportunity to sleep with her in a hotel. He enticed her with luxury items and bought her a big phone. Back in Lafia, he was also sleeping with Patricia using the same tricks.
“I was always away on business trips while he stayed behind, looking for local yams to buy. When I noticed that they were both pregnant, they refused to tell me who was responsible for them.
“Before the untimely death of their father, he had warned them never to do an abortion, saying that any of them who tried to abort a pregnancy would die. The essence of it was to scare them so they would not destroy themselves early.
“So when the idea of aborting the unwanted pregnancy was mooted, the thought of their late father’s words came and we all became afraid. They also refused to disclose the person that was responsible. So out of anger, I left them alone.
“Incidentally, Mr Augustine (Angwe) too was asking me to leave them alone, saying that they would make their confessions at their own time. But one month, two months, three months and four months passed without them identifying the person. That was how they carried the pregnancies for nine months and were delivered of babies.” Shocking revelation.
Alice recalled that two months the second of the twin sisters was delivered of her own baby, Angwe woke her up one night and broke to her the news that he was actually responsible for their pregnancies and that the new born babies belonged to him.
“I broke down in tears and cried for a whole week. I asked him what I had done to deserve this wicked act. It is a shame that my own fiancé is the father of my twins’ babies. How would I explain this shameful development to people?
“My husband was killed with members of his entire family when herdsmen invaded their village and cleared everybody in the village. We had travelled to Lafia for some medication and were the only surviving people in the family.
“I met Augustine as a gentle, nice and humble man. He treated me like my late husband. He cared so much about my twins. But he ended up ruining our lives. How can you be sleeping with me and my twin children at the same time?”