Touching Story: Twin Sisters Impregnated By One Man, Assaulted By Their Father And Forced To Sleep With Men To Survive

L&kJuly 9, 2021Read original

It is not much news when you hear a man impregnate two different girls at the same time. Is it not even a new thing when you hear a man impregnate two blood sisters at the same time. But when you hear Twin Sisters being impregnated by the same guy at the same time, or the person that is supposed to be their father is responsible, that is not only news– it is also new.

Two shocking similar stories trended last week and this week in Cameroon and Nigeria where twin sisters got impregnated by the same guy. This article will attempt to tell and juxtapose(compare and contrast) the two stories from different angles.

A touching story was shared by a Cameroonian Facebook user named Ayisha Toginia. The story centered around twin sisters who got pregnant by the same person as a result of poverty and lack of proper education.

The 16- year- old twin sisters who are said to have been pregnant for the same person who is suspected to be of their age were influenced by abject poverty their family is experiencing.

Their father reportedly works as a stone breaker on a construction site with meager wages. He could not cater properly to the girls. Their mother was not mentioned in the story but it was believed that she must be late.

After being impregnated by the same boy, their father' s friends too assaulted them. They had to move to another location after the incident but things became worse for them. They started sleeping with men to feed themselves before they were seen and helped by an NGO in the state.

The story was shared by Ms. Togina on Facebook. Below is the full story as posted by her:

" Meet this family of three. A struggling father providing for his almost due pregnant daughters in the suburbs of Buea.

Theirs is not a beautiful story but an example of the reality of life, especially in crisis- stricken English Cameroon.

This family lived at Tole where both sisters (16 years old) were impregnated by the same boy of their age in their local community just before the armed crisis forced them to move to Muea where they stayed with their dad' s friend who breaks stones for gravel.

They had to leave yet again this time because of s£xual harassment from their dad' s friend. Still pregnant they relocated to a community far behind Sandpit (Likoko) where they stayed in a rotting plank house with no doors or windows.

They sleep on a single mattress placed on the floor without a carpet and no blankets or extra bedsheets. Their house is surrounded by a bush, a breeding ground for mosquitoes, and a habitat for other dangerous animals, and insects

Their toilet, accessible by a bush path has no roof but a single hole made in the cement serving as the floor. The slimy, shaky cement has been covered by algae and branches and leaves of the trees surrounding it. For privacy, two mud- stained bedsheets are hanging at the entrance to the 3 blocks walled toilet with many holes.

This family pays rents of 5, 000 FCFA monthly to stay in that house, they don' t even feed regularly because their father can' t find odd jobs daily.

A truth exploited by the local men in the area leading these vulnerable pregnant girls to bed which they accept to feed.

Wonder how we met them? We met this pregnant girl when they came to the Solidarity Hospital Buea. We got their address and hired a car to their community to witness their living conditions and provide some basic materials. With their permission, we took these photos and videos to share their story with the world.

Their story is one of the realities of Poverty, Dispute, and the lives of IDPs. It shows us the vulnerability of poor girls and the damaging effects of lack of education.

Thank you for reading, we now call on the community, health organizations, female empowerment bodies, the government, and people of goodwill to step in and assist this family. The Solidarity Hospital is taking care of their antenatal follow- up but there is always a place for every helping hand in their lives" .

Unlike the Cameroon case, the man who is responsible for the Nigerian twin sisters' pregnancy is the man who is supposed to be their father. The man is identified as Augustine Angwe.

He happens to be their mother' s fiancées. So by law and culture, he is supposed to be their stepfather. But in this case, Augustine has overstepped his fatherly role– he stepped in- between the twin sisters' skirts too.

Augustine is a trader by profession. He was in a serious relationship with the twins' mother, Mrs. Alice Ukange. The report has it that they were planning to get married after the death of the twins' father that happened earlier.

The twin sisters are Philomina and Patricia. As of the time of this report, they already had a baby each for their stepfather with just two months apart.

In a chat with TheNation, Angwe, who started dating Alice in 2017, said, " I didn' t know that they would get pregnant. But when they did, I wanted them aborted but they refused, saying that their father warned them against it.

My brother, these girls were the ones who lured me into sleeping with them. They enjoyed it the first time we had it. From what started as a joke, it became a regular thing.

I know I have deeply hurt the mother but it has happened and there is nothing anybody can do. That is the work of the devil and I wholeheartedly accepted responsibility so as not to ruin their lives. They can pick up the pieces of their lives and move on after nursing the babies.

I will take care of the babies. And if their mothers want to go to school after the babies might have walked, they can continue and I will support them. I have been begging the mother since I disclosed this information to her that I am responsible for it and I will take care of it, but she is still angry. I know that what I did was wrong. It is a taboo, but it is too late to correct it. "

The mother of the twins also voiced out her part of the. Alice Ukange said, " I met one Augustine Angwe in the course of my business. One thing led to another and we started dating ourselves. He appeared to be gentle, humble, and kind. I was carried away and I allowed my twins to be close to him" .

Alice added on a sad note, " Augustine has finished me. He slept with me, slept with my twins, and impregnated them, and they have given birth for him. He is ever ready to take care of them. But the big question remains how a man would marry twin sisters. "

The similarity between the two cases are:

# The girls involved in both the Cameroonian case and the Nigerian case are twin sisters. They were supposed to be sisters like friends whereby they would tell each other everything. By proper and constant communication, they would have prevented this ugly scene.

# Both twins did not have their complete parents together. The Cameroonian twins did not have their mother with them which to a larger extent contributed to their predicament. The Nigerian twins had their mother but not their father. If their father was to be alive, chances are that this may not have happened to them.

# Poverty, lack of proper education, and immediate environment also contributed a lot to this menace. From the two stories, it could be deduced that poverty played a huge role in the situation they found themselves in; especially the Cameroonian case. The Nigerian case has poverty coloration too but it is not as evident as it is with the Cameroonian case.

But in both cases, it is very obvious that lack of proper education and their environment contributed to a lot of the problems for them.

That is why Dr. James kwegyir Aggrey said " If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate a family(nation)" .

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