A 21 year old mother of 5 yesterday caused a
scene in the premises of the Magistrate Court, Ikeja when she rolled on the
floor, put her breasts on display and screamed, lamenting that she and her
children were at the verge of dying from hunger.
The woman Esther Odozi, who said she lives in
Owanta village in Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State, came to
Lagos last week and because she didn’t have anywhere to sleep, slept at
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries where she begged for money to come to
the old secretariat in Ikeja.
She said she was directed by an official of Human
Rights Commission in her state to come to Lagos that she would get help.
Odozi laid half-naked on a road in the court
shouting, “Hunger, hunger. Government must do something today. I have not
received anything from the plenty crude oil money government is spending in our
state. Nigerians are wicked.”
Odozi shunned passersby who shouted at her to
cover herself as she rolled on the ground. She revealed wounds on her left leg
and the right side of her hips; she said a car hit her. She refused a N500
given to her by a passerby, saying, “I don’t want your money. I want Fashola to
give me N200, 000.”
When approached, she said, “After
confronting serious hardship in my state, I was advised by an official of Human
Rights Commission in Delta to go to Human Rights Commission in Abuja. I also
went to Police Headquarters and NAPTIP (National Agency for the Prohibition of
Trafficking in Persons) in Abuja. They all told me to go to Lagos; they said
that is where I could get help.”
“My husband, Donald Ogbaja, was a retired
policeman before he died of hunger. He married me when I was 17. I bore five
children, including twins for him.”
Odozi said she tried to survive on her own by
cultivating some crops. She, however, said she was hit by a car and had been
hindered by her injury to continue working on her farm.
She said, “I will not leave this court
without seeing N200,000 to start business. I want to sell melon and garri. Tell
Emmanuel Uduaghan, the governor of my state, and the Federal Government to do
something about my condition. They must give me part of the petrol money. I
must take care of my five children.”
When she was asked that as a young woman, didn’t
she feel ashamed to bare her breast? She answered, “I don’t have anything and I
don’t have anything to hide anymore.”
Stupid,21,mother of 5.......wot was she thinking @ 21 she has 5kids?y didn't they beat shege out of her body?she is responsible for her problems...y didn't she open her ass na?
ReplyDeleteHow dare you say she is stupid? How dare you? Do you know what she is going through? You better pray you don't experience her plight! Am sure u dint even read The story!
ReplyDeleteI read the story and will support the 1st comment, what has she seen at age 17... That's not an excuse, some of us though was born in Lagos but romanced poverty yet we came tru... She's jux a dependent, stupid girl (she's still a girl). I only pity her kids cos only God know what they'll end up to become
ReplyDeleteI pray that someone can help this poor lady. What a terrible country Nigeria is. May God be with her and her children
ReplyDelete...and as for you big mouth, you are right, she is "still a girl" and was even younger when she bore those kids. That means she did not know better. Not much else other than what her husband & society thought was OK (which is bearing kids). Now who the f*** are you to judge & condemn her? IDIOT
ReplyDeleteShe is mad
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