Babies are suppose to be good gifts from God, but sometimes they make the people who are given the free gift to cry and scream. Independence celebrations on October 1 was for Lagos driver, Kehinde Tijani, and his wife Grace, a day to celebrate the arrival of four babies in addition to the three they already had. Grace was delivered of a set of quadruplets at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos.
Like most men have done in the past when blessed with such gift in their financial state, Tijani did not abscond, but stood by his wife.
Kehinde, a driver and Grace, a small-time caterer were already living from hand to mouth before the blessing of the newborns. They now have seven children to cater for. They could barely feed the three they had.
The family who presently resides in a rented one-room apartment at Ajangbandi in Okokomaiko, Lagos, expressed gratitude to God for the gift of children, but expressed sadness and fear of an uncertain future occasioned by poverty and hardship..
