Posted by By Bassey Bassey, Calabar on
A 22 year old girl is in a dilemma over the whereabouts of her father, who abandoned her and the brother at the age of six. The man, Ukpong Archibong, who is claimed to be in the Police Mobile Force, was alleged by the daughter to have abandoned them to their mother at that tender age and absconded.
A 22 year old girl is in a dilemma over the whereabouts of her father, who abandoned her and the brother at the age of six.
The man, Ukpong Archibong, who is claimed to be in the Police Mobile Force, was alleged by the daughter to have abandoned them to their mother at that tender age and absconded.
Favour Ukpon Archibong now 22 years old and working with the Evangel Nursery School at Balanlyne Street in Calabar told Daily Sun that she never really knew the father when he left her and brother with their mother many years ago.
She said that she and the brother are now orphans because the mother, who took care of them, died few years after their father abandoned them.
She insists that from investigations the father is an Ibibio man of Akwa Ibom origin and is still alive somewhere in Nigeria .
The late mother, she said, hailed from Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and that since she died many years ago, she and her brother could not trace her maternal lineage.
Frustration, she said, had forced her elder brother, Christian Ukpong Archibong, into fishing for survival. She claimed that her highest level of education is Primary Three and that as it is she seemed to have been abandoned by nature, a situation that caused her to embrace God at a tender age as a member of the Assemblies of God Church in Calabar.
She said that if not for the church assistance and the spiritual encouragement, she would have lived a miserable life.
"I did not know why my father had to abandon me and my elder brother at that age. He left my mother when I was only six years old and in primary one.
"I was told when I made enquiries that he abandoned my mother because he did not have money. I learnt he later got recruited into the Mobile Police Force, but even at that level he refused to come back to my mother after graduating at the Police College.
"This frustration forced my mother into another marriage where she had three kids for a man who came from Esuk Mba in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State.
"Because of frustration, my mother became mentally ill and efforts were made by her relations to cure her but she eventually died. Her name was Akon Effiong John and she died in 1999.
"I believe that my father Ukpong Archibong is still today in the Nigerian Police but probably for whatever reason he has lost touch with us.
"I am appealing to him wherever he is to please get in touch with me in Calabar at No. 61 Webber Street.