Japheth Aba, a newly recruited policeman in Nasarawa State, has narrated how he returned from a 9-month training to a development that ripped his heart apart.
Japheth’s hopes were dashed, his ego badly bruised after he left home for training in Bauchi State and returned to discover that his newly married wife had been impregnated by his stepbrother.
The young and promising indigene of Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State and only son of his mother, had reported in Bauchi for post- recruitment training about three months after he got married.
A graduate of Nasarawa State Polytechnic, he joined the police about three months after his marriage to you Angela Onuh, a graduate of the College of Agriculture, Lafia.
Although the couple was said to have dated for about one year before they got married, they were said to have struck an agreement that they would have no intimacy before their marriage in September last year. Unfortunately, the intimacy they had after marriage could not result in pregnancy before the husband departed for training.
In the build-up to his departure for police training in Bauchi, Japheth secured an apartment in Lafia, Nasarawa State capital, in a compound where his stepbrother, Samuel Aba, lived. He was of the opinion that the primary school teacher would help look after his wife in his absence.
He, however, got the shock of his life when he returned from Bauchi after 9 months and found his wife heavily pregnant. Upon enquiry, Angela told him that she was lured by Samuel into an affair until she became pregnant for him.
She added that she avoided aborting the pregnancy because her parents, particularly her mother who died a few years ago, had warned her that she would die if she engaged in any abortion.
While Japheth who returned home to the shocking discovery in July has since reported at his place of primary assignment, matters became worse for him recently as a bullet was said to have hit his manhood during an exchange of gunfire between the police and some daredevil robbers. He is at the moment undergoing treatment in a hospital in Lafia while Angela was recently delivered of a baby boy.
Samuel, on his part, suffered a worse fate as some herdsmen were said to have attacked and shot him dead while he was on inspection of his farm in Doma village.
However, while Samuel was said to have seen the new baby before his death, Japhet who has been on admission in the hospital, has not had the opportunity of seeing the newborn baby or his wife since July.
Recounting the events that resulted in the scandalous incident, Japhet said: “I got married to my wife sometime in September 2021. We had during the period agreed not to mate until we were married, and I didn’t have any issue with that.
“When we eventually got married, we started mating but pregnancy was yet to come when I got recruited into the police.
“Before I left for the training, we had an extensive discussion about the future.”
“As the only son of my mother, she was actually in a hurry for me to marry and bear children for her, but my wife and I chose to hold on for a while since I was proceeding to the camp.
“It is quite unfortunate that we had regular discussion on the phone and on a few occasions, she had the opportunity to visit me in camp.
“To my surprise, I came back to meet a pregnancy I didn’t know anything about. Probing further, she mentioned my own brother whom I trusted so much and moved my wife to stay in same compound with him.
“Little did I know that the devil would use my brother to destroy my marriage by impregnating her. When I inquired from Samuel before his death, he told me my wife was the one that lured him into it.
“Samuel told me that my wife had in the course of their discussion confided in him that I was not good in bed; that though she loved me, the few months I spent with her before proceeding to camp, I was lazy in bed and was not satisfying her. So she needed a strong man to satisfy her in bed.
“He said the complaint came several times and he was afraid my wife could go outside looking for satisfaction, hence he decided to lend a helping hand.
“So, I didn’t want to take it up with Samuel when I came back because I blame my wife who allowed the whole thing to happen.
“Even when my mother was pushing me to make an issue of it, I resisted and kept quiet because we lost our father few years back. So I was careful about it.
“I was also confused about the decision to take when I returned to meet her in that condition with her unsatisfactory explanation.
“I resisted pressure from my mother and quickly moved to my place of primary assignment to allow my wife to take a decision that suited her.
“But deep within me, I concluded not to have anything to do with her. She hardly calls and I hardly call her too.
“I decided to reveal this because of the condition I am in now at the hospital. I may not survive this and I want the world to know.
“Unfortunately, Samuel is no more. He died recently from herdsmen attack when he went to the farm in the village. I pray God to grant him eternal rest and forgive all his sins on earth.
“I was not able to attend his burial because I was also here on my sick bed.”
He said since late Samuel was not married, the new baby might become his own depending on what the mother of the baby wants but she is certainly no longer his wife.
Angela regretted that she deeply offended her husband (Japheth) and prayed that he would find a place in his heart to forgive her.
She admitted that all her husband had said was true but added that it was the devil that actually tempted her into allowing her husband’s brother to sleep with her.
But she explained that Samuel made maximum use of the opportunity. “So much so that I could not let him go, and the result is what I am facing now. I am passing through the most turbulent time of my life.
“I never intended to cheat on him when we finally agreed to marry, having abstained from sex throughout the period we were dating.
“I’m afraid of visiting him at the hospital because he might kill me. But I pray for his quickly recovery. I also pray for the repose of the soul of Samuel, the biological father of my son.
“I will struggle to train him if God keeps him alive. It is not his fault. I made a mistake but I followed the words of my mother not to abort any pregnancy no matter the situation.
“It was actually a mistake that I allowed Samuel. But what if it is the only child I had in my womb?
“I will explain the genesis of everything to him, and I will want him to become a lawyer or a medical doctor.”