A set of twin sisters in Nasarawa State have conceived a baby each two months apart for a man their mother was dating and planned to marry after losing her husband.
Thoroughly embarrassed by the ugly spectacle, which has rocked the State and other neighbouring States in recent times, the distraught mother of the twin sisters, Mrs. Alice Ukange, is threatening to take her own life, saying that she cannot be alive to see “the shame” meted out to her by the twin sisters, Philomina and Patricia.
Both Philomina, who was delivered of a baby girl in January, and Patricia, who was delivered of a baby boy in March, insist that they were impregnated by Augustine Angwe, who had been dating their mother, Alice, since she lost her husband, Francis Ukange, after 14 years in marriage.
The couple were said to have been blessed with the twin sisters about four years after they got married. And with the death of Ukange, Alice resorted to combining farming with petty-trading in order to make ends meet.
With life becoming extremely hard for Alice and her daughters, they relocated to Assakyo, a suburb community in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, where she started buying raw food items from local farmers and selling the same to make some money; with this, she was able to send her twins to a public school in Assakyo and the family appeared to have found their feet, until a ‘wolf in sheep clothing’ found its way into their fold.
The poor mother had met Mr. Angwe, an indigene of Vandeikya local government area of Benue state, in 2017, while the latter was in Nasarawa State to transact his business, which was buying raw food items from the local farmers and taking them to the South-East to sell at higher prices.
In the course of doing the same business, Angwe and Alice met in a local market in Obi LGA of Nasarawa State and they struck a relationship which within three months blossomed to the point that Alice relocated from Assakyo to stay with Augustine in Lafia, where he had paid for an apartment. In no time,
Angwe, who had lost his wife and two kids in a fatal accident on Katsina-Ala Road in Benue State and was yet to remarry, became a part of the family, rendering financial assistance to Alice’s female twins to meet their basic needs; a development that soon drew the twins very close to him.
Later, Angwe and Alice reportedly began a joint business, buying yams from local farmers in Nasarawa State and transporting them for sales at a higher price in Lagos and Port Harcourt. The business flourished, with Alice always on the road while Angwe took care of the home front and made arrangements for new stocks.
Meanwhile, one of the twin sisters, Philomina, had completed her secondary school and secured admission into the College of Education, Akwanga, to do a Pre-NCE programme while Patricia remained in Lafia for a Diploma programme at the Nasarawa State Polytechnic.
Now a father figure to the twin sisters, Angwe allegedly started enticing them with luxury items and seized the chance to sleep with them at different locations until he got both of them pregnant.
In a chat with newsmen in Lafia, Angwe admitted impregnating the twin sisters, saying that he would have aborted the pregnancies but they insisted on keeping them. He also said the girls in question were the ones who lured him into sleeping with them.
A relation to the Late husband of Alice, Clement Agbe, said that what had happened in the family was strange to the culture of Tiv people, saying, “It is a taboo. But let’s see what the future holds for the newborn babies. It is unthinkable”.
The Public Relations Officer of the Nasarawa State Police Command, ASP Rahman Nansel, said the matter had not been reported to the Command.
