Female youth corper shares more details about Family of 5 battling Mental Illness

The female corps member who shared a story about a family of 5 battling mental illness has shared another write-up, revealing more details about the family.

This time, Progress Oberiko reveals how the family of 5 feeds, where they live and the husband’s life before his mental illness.

According to Oberiko, they don’t beg for food, rather the man approaches people and tells them the exact specification of what he wants. If he asks for money, he tells you how much to give him. He never accepts money out of sympathy. Meaning if you give him money to go buy something, he’ll reject it. He doesn’t collect money, except he approaches you to request for it.

He is also rumored to be an ‘Evangelist’ before his current situation, and has 7 children, but 2 were taken by the wife’s family.

She also said she noticed they have a lot to do with the number ‘7’. If he requests for money, it doesn’t exceed the number “7”. It must be ₦700. Give him ₦1000 he’ll reject it. He also has a family of seven consisting him, his wife and his 5kids.

And the highlight of it all is the Wife is currently pregnant.

Read the full writeup below:

“#ONE_BIG_FAMILY_2

#A_SPECIAL_CASE!

A conversation ensued between him and his wife one day and it turned into an argument, people were listening; “You this woman, Shey u see what you have caused us, it was you who made us end up like this!” And the woman retorted “When I was telling you, you didn’t listen, done blame it on me o, it was also your fault too”.

And they quarrelled and argued just like a normal family would do, but Las Las, they still did the trekking together, one big family!

How do they feed? They beg. And their pattern of begging is bizarre. The man does the approach. He approaches you politely and tells you the exact specification of what he wants. If he requests for money he tells you how much you’re gonna give him. And it doesn’t exceed the number “7”. It must be #700. Give him #1000 he’ll reject it.

If you are giving him foodstuffs like yam, it must be 7tubers, else he’ll reject. And from my findings, they have five kids although the two older ones were taken away by the wife’s family. From my deduction therefore, he only accepts the figure ‘7’ because he has a family of seven consisting him, his wife and his 5kids. How amazing!

From gathered info, if out of sympathy, you give him money to go buy something, he’ll reject it. He doesn’t collect money, except he approaches you to request for it.

He guards his family with power and might, you can’t even try to get close cos he becomes very aggressive at that sight. He doesn’t sleep at night, he makes a burn fire and sits awake protecting his own. It amazes me how he has succeeded in schooling his kids because he only communicate with them in clean English language.

Findings reveals that the man hails from one of the villages where I carried out one my personal CDS projects (distribution of sandals and socks for primary school children), Ukpah, Bekwarra in Cross River State. While the woman is ‘Igbó’ from Ebonyi State.

He’s rumored to be an ‘Evangelist’ in his erstwhile life before the transformation.

Some people say they’re aren’t really mad like MAD cos he speaks to people, he engages people in educative conversations.

A friend of mine told me how he got engaged in a conversation with this egregious personality who requested for lunch for his family from him and ended up telling him deep details about the Bible, he said he was amazed at the intelligence, precision and authority with which he spoke, every sentence he made, he quoted with corresponding verses and chapters from the Bible. Every single event he talked about, he mentioned the exact date and narrations back to back. 

And he rounded up the conversation by saying that he and his family are the only ones fulfilling the “EDENIC PROMISE”, in essence, he and his family are living the life which we Christians lost in the Garden of Eden and according to him, this load is too much of a burden for them because we “normal” people have abandoned that responsibility to him and his family alone.

The hut you see in this post is their home, under the rain, scorching sun and even mosquitoes they are there. They wander around town and come back whenever they please. But my surprise is that amidst all the long trekking under the sun, rain, and the unconducive environment, his children never fall sick, nothing like typhoid of pneumonia had been heard to have befallen them. But if it were to be you and I living in such condition, ‘Hospital’ for be our second bedroom. God is awesome!

If you see the way he discuss, plays and cracks jokes with his wife, love go hungry you. 

His kids run around him calling out “daddy”, “mommy”. He cooks, fetches water from the stream and does the chores.

Those children! Those children! God have mercy! They’re but children.

I got to find out the wife is pregnant at the moment, when I visited today. 

I needed to nose out more details about this egregious situation so I took a step forward and had an interview session with the immediate family of this man, it’ll shock you how he lived before and how he eventually was plagued by this situation.

Wait for it.

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Female Youth corper writes about an inseparable family of 5 battling mental illness in Cross River State

A Corps member, Progress Oberiko, took to her Facebook page to share a story of an inseparable family of 5 battling mental illness in
Ogoja, Cross River State.
According to Oberiko, the family are never separated and are always seen walking together. But one of the interesting things she noticed about them was their effective skills of communication.
Read what she wrote below.
'#ONE_BIG_FAMILY_1
This happens to be the weirdest situation I've seen in my entire life. I have been trying to get this shot for the past five months and whenever I tried, they either walk past too quickly, change direction, or not just close enough.
At other times I may be on a bike and whenever I ask the cyclist to go slow so I can get a shot of them, he'll be like "Hmmm, Abeg o, I nor fit stop this bike make u snap o, if the madman catch u, your own Don finish!
And that's how it went.
The first time I saw them here in Ogoja, my heart melted, I was livid. And my mind wandered, searching for the closest guess as to why a whole family, husband, wife, and three beautiful children would be plagued with INSANITY.
WHY!
My heart could not contain the curiosity, then i began to ask questions. Anytime I drove past them in a car or on a bike, I engage the driver or someone in a conversation about them.
I have seen them trekking long distances under the scorching sun?, I've also met them in the market making enquiries about where they could get a particular item to buy.
They're never separated, always found walking together, complete family. But the intriguing part is their communication. Jeez! This "MAD" family speak CORRECT QUEENS ENGLISH. They flow in CLEAN grammar. Na this one dey burst my head ?
I've heard the man instructing one of his children who was walking sluggishly behind him as they trekked down the road; "Hey Dorcas, will you hurry up, C'mon girl, meet up with the pace". And I marvelled.
At the market he asked someone for directions and he went; "Hey ma'am, Pls where can I get this and this... "
As you can see their dreadlocks is twisted, showing that it has lasted for God knows how long ? This means that this madness nor be today. E Don tay!
A conversation ensued between him and his wife one day and it turned into an argument, people were listening; you'll be so shocked when you hear what the content of their argument was?..

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“The people were gotten unawares as usual, they started shooting sporadically and when people were running helter shelter, some of them were met on the road and killed. The incident happened between 9pm and 10pm on Tuesday. There has been no arrest done nobody is saying unknown gunmen, the people know those who attacked them, they are Fulani herdsmen. 10 persons including women and children have been given mass burial, three other bodies have just been discovered.” he said
A native of Tanjol, a hamlet in the Jol village, Solomon Mandik who also confirmed the attack, said
“Tanjol hamlet and other hamlets in Jol community have been under siege by Fulani herdsmen since Saturday. On that day, they invaded the villages three times but by divine intervention, only one life was lost. “I just returned from the village today (Wednesday). Since that Saturday, nobody has rested, the heavy gunshots rented the air as armed Fulani herdsmen terrorized the locals. There was even a meeting between Fulani and the security personnel at Sector 9. Immediately after the meeting, they resumed the attacks. We sent calls to the security but they did not come for help, those that were on ground deserted their post and at the end, 13 people including a baby were killed.”
Reacting to the attack, the spokesman of the State police command, Mathias Tyopev,
“Yes, there was an attack there and as we speak, our men are at Rim because there was a distress call from there. We need to give the men on ground time to put their reports together''.

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Another Minister enmeshed in NYSC certificate forgery scandal. This time it's Adebayo

Barely a week after former Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun resigned after she owned up to been in possession of a forged NYSC dischage certiticate, another Minister in the cabinet of President Buhari has been accused of forging his NYSC certicate.
According to a new report by Premiumtimes, Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, allegedly failed to participate in the NYSC scheme despite graduating from the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) at age 25. Read the report as Published by Premumtimes below
Another minister serving in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet has been found to have skipped the mandatory national youth service scheme, an offence that may see him lose his position and earn him jail term.
The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, failed to participate in the NYSC scheme despite graduating from the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) at age 25, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report
The revelation about Mr. Shittu, who is currently angling to become Oyo State governor, is coming to light about a week after Kemi Adeosun was compelled to step down from her post as Nigeria’s finance minister after this medium reported that she skipped national service and then procured a fake exemption certificate to cover her tracks.
Months of discreet checks at the NYSC headquarters showed that the communications minister did not present himself for service after graduation and is yet to do so till date.
Contacted Tuesday, Mr. Shittu admitted that he did not serve but claimed he thought his first political post after graduation could suffice as national service, a claim lawyers and NYSC insiders consider as ludicrous and untenable.
Skipping the compulsory national service is an offence under the NYSC law, punishable with up to 12 months imprisonment.
Employers are mandated by law to always request NYSC certificate of national service from employees as part of the conditions for hiring.
Mr Shittu, born on March 23, 1953, studied law at Ife, graduating in 1978. He proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, Lagos, qualifying as a lawyer in 1979.
Having earned a bachelors degree at the age of 25, Section 2 of the NYSC Act expects Mr Shittu to have participated in the year-long national service
Section 2 (1) of the NYSC Act mandates all Nigerians who earn degrees or higher national diplomas from tertiary institutions in Nigerian and abroad (effective 1972/73 session) to participate in the scheme.
Those exempted by the law are those who graduated after their 30th birthday, persons with national honours and individuals who serve in the military and intelligence organisations.
Rather than enlist in the national service, Mr Shittu went into politics after graduation, and was, in 1979, elected member of the Oyo State House of Assembly.
The minister said he believed that having been elected lawmaker, he needed not participate in the national service.
He said he deliberatively skipped the NYSC scheme because he was convinced that his membership of the state assembly was itself a “service”.
“The constitution provides for the qualification needed for state assembly members, NYSC is not there,” Mr. Shittu said. “I didn’t need it to become a member of the state assembly, and that is already a service,” he said.
Mr Shittu disagreed with our reporter who laboured to explain to him that the NYSC Act makes participation in the scheme mandatory for all graduates like him and that election or appointment to political office does not qualify as a basis for exemption.
What the Law Says
Mr Shittu’s argument does not appear convincing when placed against the letters of the NYSC law.
Section 2, subsection 1 of the Act makes it obligatory for “every Nigerian” who graduate at the end of academic year 1972-73 and subsequent years, “to make himself available for service for a continuous period of one year from the date specified in the call-up instrument served upon him”.
Subsection 2 of the same section enumerated instances of exemption from the national service, which did not include holding political office, as Mr Shittu claimed.
The four categories of individuals exempted from the national service, according to the NYSC law, are those who graduated above the age of thirty, and those who have served in the armed forces or the Nigeria Police for a period of more than nine months.
The third category covers staff of four security organisations, namely the Nigerian Security Organisation, the State Security Service, the National Intelligence Agency and the Defence Intelligence Service.
Exemption status is also conferred on individuals who bagged national honours before graduation.
Illegalities?
Despite not possessing certificate of national service, Mr Shittu went on from being a state lawmaker, to occupying important government positions, including his current post as minister.
Mr Shittu is a former attorney general and commissioner for justice in his native Oyo State. He also served as member of the Oyo State Judicial Service Commission from 2004 to 2007.
In 2005, he was nominated minister by President Buhari, and later assigned the communications portfolio upon legislative screening.
It is not clear how he scaled screenings by the Oyo State House of Assembly, the SSS, and the National Assembly, who are all expected to screen commissioner and ministerial nominees before their appointment.
Mr Shittu is now aspiring for governorship of Oyo State.
Section 12 of the NYSC Act mandates all employers to demand the national service certificate of prospective employees before hiring.
Section 12 of the Act reads:
“For the purposes of employment anywhere in the Federation and before employment, it shall be the duty of every prospective employer to demand and obtained from any person who claims to have obtained his first degree at the end of the academic year 1973-74 or, as the case may be, at the end of any subsequent academic year the following:-
a. a copy of the Certificate of National Service of such person issued pursuant to section 11 of this Decree
b. a copy of any exemption certificate issued to such person pursuant to section 17 of this Decree
c. such other particulars relevant there to as may be prescribed by or under this Decree.”
Section 13 of the Act also criminalises skipping the national service as it prescribes 12 months imprisonment or fine of N2,000 or both, for such offenders.
Lawyers speak
Lawyers who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES said the minister is in the breach of the NYSC law for skipping the national service.
“His membership of the state assembly is not the same as national service,” said Huwaila Mohammed, a Kano-based practitioner. “He needs to serve, because the section of the law dealing with exemption did not include political office holders like him.”
Another lawyer, Abdul Mahmud, agreed with Ms Mohammed’s position, saying the minister “is a dodger who is in breach of the law”.
He said by the provision of Section 12 of the NYSC Act, Mr Shittu ought to have presented his certificate of national service before he was cleared as minister.
“The provision is clear,” Mr. Mahmud said. “It says (you must serve) before you get any job in the federation.”
Mr Mahmud, who chairs the Abuja-based pressure group, Public Interest Lawyers League (PILL), said Mr Shittu’s “case is worse than that of Kemi Adeosun because he deliberately refused to serve”.
“If we assume as a member of the Oyo House he (Mr Shittu) served, did it not defeat objective 4 (b) stated in Section 1 (4) (b) of the NYSC Act? Members serve in states other than their own,” he said.
The lawyer said Mr Shittu should be arrested immediately by the police and made to face the law.
All positions he has held are illegal and he should return all monies he earned from those posts to government coffers.