s.O.s: Truck Pusher Seeks Help For His Triplets

John Aroh and Family

JOHN Aroh, a 32-year-old truck pusher, visited The Guardian’s Rutam House, Isolo, Lagos offices on a Monday morning, tears welling in his eyes. According to him, the urgent need to provide for his triplet forced him out of his abode as early as 5am to avoid traffic, achieve his mission and still go back to his daily hustle. He lives at Okeafor, Badagry Expressway.
    His joy knew no bounds when his wife, Patricia, gave birth to the triplets at the Badagry General Hospital on June 23 last year. Bu the joy is now short-lived.  Due to the nature of his job, Aroh finds it hard to provide for the basic needs of the babies (two boys and one girl). And the little money he gets from odd job is being exhausted on the welfare the babies.
 “Things are really rough and it is the grace of God and people around that has helped my family and I so far,” he cried out.
   Aroh is an indigene of Ugwuaji Awkunanaw in Enugu State. But after another indigene successfully convinced his parents that he needed Aroh to serve under him, he headed to Lagos. The man, according to Aroh, said he would set him up after a period of time but that never happened. He served his master who sells building materials at Coker, Orile, Lagos for six years. He began in 2000 and got his freedom in 2006. 
     “When I even told my Oga that my wife gave birth to triplets, he only gave me N3, 000 to go take care of them. God knows best but the only thing I think of now is to take good care of my triplets because I want them to be useful in life,” he said.
    Although distraught, he says going back to the village is not an option. “I now help people to carry loads with my truck at Odun Ade, Orile popularly known as Coker. I dropped out of secondary school because I had no one to pay my school fees. I am the first son of my parents and I have four sisters in the village too.” 
    He confessed that kind-hearted people have being generous to the triplets, but things are still very rough. “I am jobless and helpless; I really need help to take care of my triplets.”
  In his effort to seek a way out, he visited Government House in Enugu and attempted to get to the Lagos State government but all proved abortive. His words: “The least I got from the government officials was to get a good job but I have really tried.”
   In a letter addressed to the Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime in April this year, Aroh pleaded: “I and my family are living at the mercy of kind-hearted individuals. Even to buy baby foods for the triplets is very difficult. I am therefore on behalf of my family appealing for your interventions  - materially, financially or in form of employment.”
   “It is not my joy to come out publicly to seek help but the reality of watching my triplets go through pains, worries me and I really desire to do something about that,” he added.
  His wife, an orphan, sells pure water at Okeafor, Badagry Expressway, Lagos.
  “My wife sells pure water and she is doing the little she can do to help the family. I met her in the village but we got married in Lagos in 2003.”
   Those willing to help Aroh can contact him on 08098457148.

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