A heavily pregnant widow, Tosin Olumogba, who alleged that her husband’s family sent her out of the house after the demise of her husband was yesterday seen by passersby roaming the street of Ado-Ekiti.
The 24-year old mother of two kids who narrated her ordeal to journalists said she had been on the street since January, 2016 and sleeps around the market with the two kids.
She said the okada accident that claimed her husband’s life happened on the 2nd of December, 2015 and that ever since, life has become miserable to her and the two kids.
Tosin said her husband, Lere Olorunfemi, who is an okada rider during his life time hails from Yahaya family at Italoke ni Oke-Ikere area in Ikere-Ekiti.
She said though her husband and his family members are most times not in good living relationship while he was alive, he claimed that one of the elders of of the deceased; Afuye Olorunfemi sent her and the children packing after the death of her husband.
The woman said Afuye claimed she must leave the family house because her father never came to commiserate with the deceased family after the demise of their son and never present at his burial.
“Since January this year I have been sleeping in front of a lock-up shop inside the Oja Oba market. I go about begging for alms to feed myself and my two children. Every morning I do buy sachet water to wash our face, feet and hands. We have not taken our bath since January,” Tosin lamented with tears.
‘Tosin who hails from Akure said her mother is no more and she only have single parent and that her father lives at Oke-Ijebu area in Akure.
She said if opportuned to go to Akure, she will be able to locate her family house, but she doesn’t have phone contacts of any of her family members.
Narrating how she met the deceased husband, Lere, the housewife who is presently 8 months pregnant said she met Lere in Ikere-Ekiti while serving as a sales girl in a provision store.
She claimed she had been learning tailoring and her husband had planned to get her a shop immediately she concludes learning the work by June this year, “but unfortunately, death never allowed the dream to come to pass.”
Tosin said she gave birth to her first child, Precious who is presently 6-years old after her deceased husband went to pay her dowry and later gave birth to the female child, Ayomide who is now 3-years old.
She lamented that since the demise of her husband, her two children who attended a private primary school in Ikere had stopped going to school.
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