MOTHER ABANDONS NEWSBORN TWINS

MOTHER ABANDONS NEWSBORN TWINS

A poor mother, Sarah Ademola, has fled the Felken Maternity Centre in the Somolu area of Lagos State, where she was delivered of a set of twins.

Sarah  left behind the two newborn girls at the centre.

It was gathered that Sarah disappeared from the  maternity due to the inability of her spouse, Adeyemi Ademola, to pay the sum of N150,000 required by  the hospital.

Thepressinfo,  learnt that the whereabouts of the mother had been unknown since  December 16, 2016, when she ran out of Felken maternity center.

 The father of the twins, Adeyemi said he was not at home when his wife was delivered of the twins, adding that he had been struggling to raise fund proved abortive.

According to him, “Sarah is my second wife. I had been married to my first wife for some time and when she didn’t conceive, family members started mounting pressures on us. When the pressure was unbearable, she told me to go ahead and get someone that could give me a child.

  “In less than two years after I met this one (Sarah), she conceived. I was not at home on the day she was delivered of the twins. I was asked to pay N300,000 for the medical bills and from where I was, I sent N20,000 as a deposit. Because of the nature of my job, I couldn’t make it to the hospital immediately.

“But when I was off duty, I visited the hospital. At a point, I begged the management to give me some time and that I would pay them by instalment, but they refused.”He said his family later raised N70,000 from a cooperative society to make the money N90,000