Alake Latoyosi, 54, was delivered of 11 babies for Nafiu, the Missioner of Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union IEDPU in Port Novo Ajasse, Cotonou in Benin Republic.
It was learnt that the babies; eight boys and three girls are alive except two of the girls that died during delivery.
In an interview with VON, Nafiu confirmed that two of the babies died but the remaining nine are hale and hearty.
He, however, lamented that his family is currently grappling with financial constraint due to huge amount of money spent in taking care of the babies and their mother.
“One other major challenge that we are now facing before we could bring the children home to Ilorin to show them to my own parents is how to raise money for the marriage rites, which is very expensive as well as medical bill and police report”, the Islamic scholar added.
According to him, the birth attendant took delivery of the babies on two different occasions.
The first set of delivery took place on Saturday, 7th July, 2024 while the second batch of children were delivered on 14th of August.
“A few days after the delivery of the first set of children, the mother said she observed strange movement in her stomach and on getting to the hospital, after a scan was carried out, the doctor revealed that she was carrying another set of children which led them to contact the initial birth attendant where the next set of five babies were delivered”, Nafiu said.
He disclosed that he saw God’s miracle in the way the children were delivered.
According to him, the pregnancy of the children lasted over three years before delivery.
He explained that efforts to ascertain the pregnancy position of his wife proved abortive in the hospital with medical doctors not able to carry out successful operation on the mother, which he attributed to spiritual influence on the medical doctors.
Nafiu stated that before the decuplets were born, he was blessed with many children while his wife too also had children for another man she divorced prior to their union.
Speaking on the development, the National President of IEDPU, Alhaji Abdulmumini Abdulmalik, confirmed that the father of the children hails from Onikeke Compound, Popo Giwa Area of Ilorin.
“History is repeating itself in Ilorin when about a century ago, that is a few years after the end of world war one, history was made in Ilorin- a woman gave birth to decuplets (ten babies at a single birth).
Abdulmalik stated that since that period till this date, the locality where the birth was given became known as *ITA GOMA*, which loosely translated as the arena of decuplets.
He expressed delight that an Ilorin indigene in diaspora living in Cotonou, Benin Republic has just been blessed with decuplets.
“While welcoming the decuplets and congratulating the parents on this uncommon blessing, we rejoice with Mai Martaba, the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji (Dr) Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, during whose reign this glorious history of an Ilorin indigene having decuplets repeating self”, he added.
The National President, however, noted that the unanticipated blessing will adversely affect the lean income of the parents of the babies.
Abdulmalik, therefore, appealed to both government and public spirited individuals, especially the philanthropists in Ilorin Emirate, to support Nafiu financially and materially to meet up with his parental responsibility
– Additional details from VON
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