Mary and father Edt Okon
You read some stories and just wonder why. This is the story of a fisherman, Edet Okon who had fled his ancestral home in Efut Obot Ikot in the ceded Bakassi Peninsula in March 2013 when Cameroonian gendermanes attacked the village in which a lot of indigenes lost their lives and scores sustained varying degrees of life-threatening injuries. This led Edet Okon and his family to a dusty village in Akwa Ikot Eyo Edem, Cross Rivers State where there story even went worse.
Shortly after they began living as a
refugee there, Edet discovered his first daughter was down with blood cancer and he didn’t want her to juts die unattended too. So he decided to use his 12-year old daughter, Mary as collateral to borrow N600,000 from a man in calabar. The girl later died, and 19months after, he is yet to pay the said money, which has made Mary to be living in agony with her father’s creditor. Continue below to read
the rest of the story as reported by
Punch.
