I Fainted When My Wife Said Our Former Neighbor Is The Father Of Our Child - Family

 Muridia and Yaqub Ganiyu were residing peacefully as a couple for 17 years. They are blessed with 4 children.

Sadly, the union is on the verge of whole crumble, thanks to a startling revelation by using Muridia that Yaqub isn't always the organic father in their 14-year-antique daughter.

Yaqub, a industrial motorcyclist who is but to return to terms with the fact of his spouse’s confession, informed Vanguard Metro that he fainted twice out of surprise when his spouse broke the news.

During a visit to his one-room apartment on Matomi Street, Alagbado, a border city between Lagos and Ogun states, the daddy of four stated the problem had affected the youngster in query, emotionally and had additionally truncated the non violent surroundings in his home.

At the instant, the husband and spouse are living aside, an motion Yaqub is displeased with, as he alleged that he became mandated via So-Safe Corps, a vigilante group, to be giving his spouse N5,000 weekly for the upkeep of the kids.

The rosy beginning

In this interview with him, he recalled: “I met Muridia 17 years ago when she became an apprentice. I assisted her financially until she mastered the ability. Thereafter, we began courting and residing collectively. I delivered her to Lagos, from Otu Village, Oyo State, to installation a enterprise for her.

“ We are blessed with four youngsters, a daughter and three sons – aged 14, 8 and 4 years and 3 months respectively.

“Initially, things went smoothly inside the family at the same time as I changed into running as a truck operator. At a factor, I lost that job. I began driving a motorcycle with the intention to positioned food on the desk.

Things crumble

“Recently, I noticed that my wife started out behaving surprisingly. I stored calm to permit peace reign till she added a Tecno-five Phone domestic. When I asked in which she got it from, she gave a flimsy purpose. I also noticed she were communicating with a man whose identification I did no longer recognise. I needed to seize the phone.

“About a month ago, she woke me up at midnight and informed me that I become no longer the biological father of our 14-12 months-antique daughter. She said her former boyfriend who lives in Germany is the biological father of the child. You gained’t accept as true with that this equal guy and I have been as soon as neighbours before he travelled overseas.

“I fainted out of surprise and disbelief, twice. It changed into neighbours that resuscitated me. What baffled me changed into that the man she claimed to be the organic father is a relative and an antique pal of mine. His father has  wives, considered one of them is my aunt.

“I later got to understand that things had been no longer going easily with him. When they enquired to understand the reason spiritually, it became discovered that he had a toddler somewhere and that till he accepts the paternity of the child, there received’t be any strategy to his difficulty.

“Initially, I idea my wife turned into out of her senses. I contacted her circle of relatives contributors to pray for her so that she may want to get nicely however I didn’t know she had other plans.

Two weeks ago, she mentioned the matter with So-Safe Corps at Abule-Iroko, Ogun State. I was arrested and detained by way of the Corps. Its officials ordered me to select up my property and depart our one-room condo.

‘’It did not cease there, they ordered me to return the smartphone I seized to her and pay N5,000 weekly, for the circle of relatives upkeep. I had been homeless given that then. The attention of both households had been interested in the problem however from all symptoms, Muridia’s family participants are in support of her motion.

“I have an aged mom and an elder brother who aren't medically in shape to interfere.

‘’The guy my spouse claimed is the father of my daughter said I ought to live a ways faraway from her or face the consequences, boasting that he has the economic muscle to deal with me.

“I used to have 3 bikes but bought them to allow me to fend for my own family. The one I am presently the usage of was bought on lease purchase.”

But while Vanguard Metro met Muridia, she clarified that she turned into already pregnant for any other guy who she recognized as Teslim, whilst she met her husband.

She said: “When I discovered I become six weeks pregnant, I informed Teslim approximately it however he sent me away and requested me to terminate it.

“Luckily for me, Yaqub walked into my existence and slept with me. A few weeks later, I informed him I turned into pregnant for him, he normal paternity and we pulled resources together to lease an rental. Teslim and I have been inside the village even as Yaqub was visiting from Lagos.

“I am a hairdresser but our live together were hellish as Yaqub has no tangible source of profits to fend for the own family.

“Several tries to walk far from the marriage have been unsuccessful as he tactically tied me down with pregnancy. This is the fourth rented condominium I have paid for however he continually disrupts my probabilities of staying alone.

“One day, I got a name from Teslim’s buddy, who requested to know what befell to the being pregnant of 15 years in the past, I did now not provide him any reaction.

“I changed into in church sooner or later whilst Teslim’s relative despatched a Tecno-5 cellphone to me due to the fact mine turned into faulty. Teslim called me to say he was in Germany but that settling down maritally had been hard. He advised me that upon divination, he changed into advised to head and claim the paternity of the infant he abandoned to be able to have a settled existence.

“Two weeks in the past, Yaqub and I had a quarrel in my shop. Neighbours intervened through contacting the So Safe Corps which effected his arrest.

“My uncle and other individuals of my family are aware of this depend. There are movements to behavior a DNA check to examine the biological father of my daughter, Zainab,” she stated.

In a talk with Zainab, she innocently advised Vanguard Metro: “My mummy and daddy are fighting due to me. They said some thing occurred once I become younger,”

Investigations revealed that the So Safe Corps personnel who handled the matter had opened a conversation channel among Teslim and Zainab. The employees become quoted to have threatened to re-arrest Yaqub and seized his bike which is his best approach of profits.

When Vanguard Metro contacted the Commander, So -Safe Corps, Soji Gonzalo, on cellphone, he said he turned into at an reliable characteristic in Abeokuta and could be unable to respond to her inquiry.

However, it became learnt that via the effort of a human rights activist, Comrade Adewale Ojo, the National Coordinator, Human Rights Advocacy & Monitoring Group (HURAMG), the So Safe Corps personnel has been summoned to the Corps headquarters in Abeokuta, Ogun State in which he is being interrogated.

Efforts to reach the meant father of the teen failed as calls and text messages sent to his cell smartphone had been no longer attended to.