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A woman, Mrs. Bimpe Ibraheem, who used her one and half years old daughter as a collateral for N10,000 says frustration forced her to do it.
A woman, Mrs. Bimpe Ibraheem, who used her one and half years old daughter as a collateral for N10,000 says frustration forced her to do it.
Mrs. Ibraheem, told Daily Sun in Ikare, few days after she refunded N10,000 to her creditor and claimed her daughter back, that frustration leads to aggression, adding that she went to Lagos to work in order to earn money to pay back and claim back her daughter.
According to her, after she borrowed the money from her friend to start food business, her husband took the money from her under the pretext that he wanted to use it to repair his commercial bus.
She accused Daily Sun of celebrating her misfortune, in its February 2, 2006 edition. "You people are not fair to me at all. You are celebrating my misfortune, you should not have published the story, but thank God I have paid the money and here is my daughter with me," she said.
The woman described the whole scenario as a sad development, saying her husband did not bother to look for her or retrieve her daughter from her creditor.
She confessed that to get the money, she engaged in some dirty jobs, like carrying loads for people, working at food vendor's place, adding: "In fact, I worked round the clock before I could get that money. What is important is my daughter and I have reclaimed her. A child is more than money. No rich man or woman can buy a child with money. Thank God."
On the relationship with her husband, she stated that he was still within the town and staying with another woman, adding that she regretted marrying the man.
Mrs Ibraheem, said she would go back to Lagos to continue her struggle, revealing that her determination was to train her two kids.
Her creditor, Mrs. Hadjat Ismail, however, said there was nothing to say since Mrs Ibraheem had paid the money and taken her daughter. "I thank God she met her daughter in good health after seven weeks. I pity her. What happened to her could happen to any woman because one cannot predict a man's behaviour," she stated.