As Alice drove to her friend’s place, she rehearsed what to tell
her. How would she tell her friend that Mike, her husband, had
impregnated Peace, her maid again? This was the third time
she would be seeking her friend’s help in terminating the poor
teenager’s pregnancy! She made up her mind that this would
be the last.
But Mary, her friend, disagreed with her vehemently: “Alice, I
cannot follow you to the clinic for another abortion. What if she
loses her womb or her life in the process? I think it is high
time something is done to your husband. He must stop
sleeping with your maids.”
Written By Kemi Ashefon:
Alice felt humiliated by her friend’s outburst. She sat on the
chair and cried. Mike had always been a thorn in her flesh! For
almost 12 years of marriage, she could not point at any good
deed he had done in her life or the marriage. Her mind flashed
back to the last discussion she had with him at home:
“You are always complaining that I have not done anything for
you in this marriage. Don’t you have four beautiful children?
How many of your mates have four boys in their marriages?”
“But Mike, I am not talking about the children, I am referring
to the vices you have wrought in this marriage in the last 11
years. I am tired! You keep digressing to inanities when
serious issues are discussed. So, how do you explain the
pregnancy Peace is carrying?” Alice said accusingly.
“Pregnancy? Peace? Look here, woman, I don’t have a clue of
what you are insinuating and I have told you I don’t want to
have anything to do with either you or the stupid maids you
bring to this house,” Mike said and left the house in anger.
Things had always taken this pattern in their marriage!
She worked in a bank and had risen to a managerial level.
From the first year of their marriage, Alice had always hired
helps to mind the home, especially her children, who all came
in quick succession.
She had lost count of the number of domestic helps her
husband had slept with. Whether old or young, Mike was a
randy man, who slept with her maids.
Ruth, the first child minder she hired after the birth of her
firstborn, was a Ghanaian. Plump and pretty, the middle aged
nanny was hired through a colleague. Ruth was a single
mother and had come to Nigeria to fend for her four children.
Initially, Alice never suspected any foul play between the
woman and her husband. She was a very good nanny, who
also helped with housekeeping and this saved Alice a lot of
stress. Before she returned from work, there was food on the
table and her baby would have been well taken care of.
Since her husband worked in the civil service, he arrived home
first and she was happy that he helped supervise domestic
staff especially the nanny. But after the birth of Godson, their
second child, Ruth insisted on leaving! Alice begged that the
nanny should wait and help nurture her baby because she was
resuming work in less than a month. Ruth did not budge but
said she wanted to go and stay with her children in Ghana.
When she resumed and lamented to her colleague who
brought Ruth to her, she was shocked to learn that Ruth was
not in Ghana but had rented an apartment in town. Alice got
the address and traced the house where the nanny lived. She
wanted to beg her to return to her home. It was a work day
and she had closed early to check on nanny Ruth. Was she
shocked when she met Mike there? He laid on the bed dressed
in a pair of boxers! She didn’t utter a word but left. Obviously,
Mike rented the apartment for the nanny so that they would
have time for their escapade- her second baby would have
posed a hindrance.
If he apologised over Ruth’s case, he never did on Uzo, the
teenage girl she brought from the village. Suddenly, she
observed the flat chest of the girl was sprouting! Though Uzo
never got pregnant, the girl told Alice’s mother that ‘daddy is
always sleeping with me when auntie goes to work.’
She managed to get a crèche where she put her children but
when she was pregnant the third time, she could not help but
get another maid. This time, she was a 14-year-old from her
pastor. If Alice thought her husband would be scared of their
pastor and not come near the girl, she was wrong! In fact,
Susan, the maid, was the first teenager she took for an
abortion! The girl agreed to terminate the pregnancy after her
mother collected over N100, 000 from Alice. It was to seal the
promise not to tell the pastor or anyone in the church!
That marked the beginning of series of abortions she had for
over five girls. But her husband kept denying his action.
“I still believe Peace should keep this pregnancy and have the
baby,” she heard Mary said as she jolted to reality.
“Why should I keep a pregnancy Mike has denied paternity?
What if she had slept with someone else?” Alice said.
“Both of us know your husband is responsible. That girl was
brought by my sister from Togo and I don’t know what to tell
her if anything happens to her,” Mary said.
For Alice, it seemed her world had come to an end.
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