When Beatrice left home in the morning of
October 1 with her twin girls, the four-year old
twins would probably be thinking that being
Independence Day, their mother was taking them
out for a special treat.
Alas, Beatrice was on a mission to sell her God-
given girls for N75,000 apiece. How were the
girls rescued from this monster of a mother?
Wonders, they say shall never end. What many
would rather give a finger to have was what a
woman, identified as Beatrice, was trying hard to
dispose, while most Nigerians were celebrating
jthe anniversary of the country’s freedom from the
claws of colonialists on Tuesday, October 1.
Beatrice, a native of Isiele-Uku, married to a
Beninoise was trying so hard to send her twins
into eternal slavery. Beatrice, who lived with her
husband at Idi-Iroko area border in Ogun State,
was reported to have parted ways with her
husband in March.
While she lives with her four-year old twins at the
border town, her estranged husband was said to
have taken another wife and moved out of the
town.
But it was reported that once every month,
Beatrice’s former husband used to come visiting
his twins in the care of his estranged wife.
The man is also reported to take full
responsibility for the welfare of the two girls, as
he provided for their upkeeps, albeit not to the
required standard.
The husband, whose identity could not be
immediately ascertained, was on such trip to Idi-
Iroko on that fateful day when he discovered that
his former wife and mother of his twin girls was
close to disposing off of the twins for cash.
It was gathered that on the morning of that day,
Beatrice left her house quite early for a market at
the border.
The woman was said to have informed one
Meimunat, said to be her closest friend of her
plans to travel out of the town for the coming
Sallah period.
It was discovered later that when Beatrice left
home early that day with her twins, she headed
for the border market where she reportedly met a
couple said to have come from Lome, in Togo to
purchase the twins.
Some hours after she left home with her kids,
Beatrice’s husband, with a friend of his living a
stone throw from Beatrice’s house, arrived the
house to see his twins, but was informed that his
estranged wife had left home early that day.
Beatrice and the couple with another man from
Idi-Iroko, who appeared as middleman between
her and the intending buyer of her twin girls, were
reported to have met at a restaurant near the Idi-
Iroko main gate.
An eye witness account told journalists that
while Beatrice was in talks with the Togolese
couple for the price for the twins, a friend of her
former husband walked into the restaurant for a
different purpose, presumably to buy some fast
food to eat.
Beatrice’s former husband’s friend reportedly saw
the woman and the twins at the restaurant, by
which time Beatrice was deeply engrossed in the
negotiations for the sale of the kids, he dashed
out of the restaurant and placed a call through to
his friend saying that he sighted his estranged
wife at the restaurant with their kids.
It was reported that by the time the man got to
the restaurant, Beatrice had already concluded
arrangement with the couple and the sum of
N150, 000 had already been handed over to her.
She soon left the little girls with the couple, who
reportedly stayed back at the restaurant trying to
do some shopping for the little girls.
As fate would have it, while Beatrice was coming
out of the restaurant, her former husband
reportedly rode in a motorcycle into the
restaurant.
Sighting Beatrice, the man reportedly barked at
her demanding for his kids. Beatrice reportedly
told her former husband that she left the twins at
home to get some things for them at the
restaurant. She, however, did not know that the
man had earlier gone to check them at home.
Beatrice tried to free herself from the man’s grips,
but he prevailed on her to take him to see his
kids. While they were still shouting on each other
outside the restaurant, the couple emerged from
the restaurant with the little girls and the man
reportedly yelled at her kids.
The confused couple was thus prevented from
going away with the kids while Beatrice received
heavy punches from her former husband.
Speaking on telephone, Akin, Beatrice’s former
husband’s friend, claimed that had he and his
friends waited a minute more, they would not
have seen the twins again.
His words: “Earlier that morning, I was with my
friend when he went to check his twins at the
woman’s house but we were told that she had
travelled. But some hours after, I wanted to
entertain my friend so I went to the restaurant to
get some things to eat.
“When I got there, I saw the woman discussing
with the husband and wife and another man,
while the two girls were eating snacks beside
them.
“Fortunately, the woman did not see me. So I
went back and told my friend what I saw at the
restaurant. That was how he said we should rush
there and when we got there, the woman had
already been paid for the purchase of the twins
and was about leaving the town.
“You can imagine a woman offering her twins for
N150, 000.”
Another eyewitness told reporters that “I was
repairing my car beside the restaurant and I
suddenly heard noise at the entrance of the
restaurant.
“By the time we got there, we heard that the
woman had sold the kids for N150, 000. But the
man beat the hell out of the woman before they
all moved themselves into a bus and left the
area.”
The couple that reportedly paid for the twins had
to forfeit their money while the father of the twins
took possession of his kids. He reportedly
dragged Beatrice into a bus and left the area.
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