Mr Segun Adepegba, the father of the
three children abandoned in a boarding school for eight years in
Abule-Iroko in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Mr Segun
Adepegba, on Wednesday.
Adepegba
said hardship pushed him to the wall and that was why he could not take
care of his children. He, however, promised to visit them before the
end of the week.
The father of three, in a telephone interview recounted his ordeal, saying, “life has been very tough for me.” He
said he left the children because he was jobless and had no house to
accommodate them.
It was reported that Adepegba’s children-Seun, 14, Titilola 13,
and Seyi, 10, had been abandoned since 2007 at Solid Rock Model College
in Abule-Iroko. The children, who had been eager to meet their parents,
said the absence of their parents was affecting their studies.
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For
many years, the school authorities had been trying to reach Adepegba to
no avail. The proprietor of the school, Mr Samuel Ayegbusi, had told
our correspondent that any time he called Adepegba and he realised it
was him, he would switch off his phones.
Adepegba, however, bowed to pressure on Tuesday after reading the report by PUNCH Metro. He told our correspondent that abandoning his children was inevitable, promising that he would visit the school.
While
narrating his ordeal to our correspondent, he said, “In 2007, my wife
and I had a misunderstanding and she told me she was leaving me. I was
frustrated and the children were little. Seyi, the youngest was just two
years while Titilola was just five.
“There
was no way I could give them motherly care. I had no job. As a man, I
needed someone to help me take care of them and that was why my sister
suggested that we enrol them in a boarding school.”
Adepegba said
that when the children’s bills kept accumulating and he had no means of
paying, he was afraid that if he came to the school, the proprietor
would get him arrested.
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