I WANT TO KILL MYSELF – WIDOW WITH 6 CHILDREN GRIEVES

38 year old Nana Akua, a widow and a mother of six children laments her ordeal to crimecheckghana.  She and her children currently have nowhere to sleep as they are being ejected from their room due to her inability to pay her rent.

Nana Akua told crimecheckghana that she was living with her husband at Nungua with their four children but as fate will have it, due to his husband’s asthmatic condition she could not hold on to life and passed on leaving her and their children without help from any family member or friend.

The widow laments “in my distress I met a man who offered to give us accommodation. He rented a place for us at Ablekuma waakye junction for six months”.

She reveals that, during the period, she had two children with him.

When she got pregnant with the last born, the man asked him to abort the pregnancy but she refused. So he abandoned her and the six children.

Narrating her plight, the 38 year old said “I was working to assist myself and my children but due to the operation with the sixth child am unable to work”.

Amid tears, the mother of six told crimecheckghana that because of the difficulties she and her children have to suffer, all her five children have dropped out of school. The worse of it all is that, Nana Akua and her six children have been ejected from their house because their rent is due.

The aggrieved mother ha stherefore asked the public for help. “I request for assistance to rent a place for me and my children, and some support to send my children to school”. She said.