A Chronicle Of Polygamous Brouhaha -6

This is another story of a Committed Leader in an orthodox church that ended up with an extra wife and his action altered the course of lives involved and the end result was so shocking,it will leave you quite shocked...

Andrew was a self-righteous man that everybody loved and appreciated because of his hard work, commitment and dedication to things of God and his business acumen. He was a wonderful fellow to be with. A man with a large heart and God blessed the works of his hands.


He later decided to settle down with beautiful fifteen year old Amara. After the necessary marriage rites were performed, Amara took in and gave birth to a girl. They were happy and thankful for God’s blessings. He was also progressing steadily in his business. Amara was very fruitful and she gave birth to another girl and another girl.

Before you will say jack, Amara have given birth to TEN GIRLS, yes ten beautiful girls. Andrew did not show much worry but people knew he was not totally happy having only girls coupled with the fact he was an only son of his late parents. As time went on, he acquired landed properties, cars and good things of life. He also bought a Peugeot car for Amara.

The sisters were not happy about their brother having only girls, they mounted pressure on them for a male child. Two options was given to them, either Amara produce a male child within a year or allow the husband remarry their cousin’s late wife that had only one daughter before her husband passed away.

They forgot that Amara’s health was already affected because of quick conceptions. After, a long argument, she accepted and encouraged the husband to go ahead and impregnate Uche. They went through some procedure to authenticate the agreement.

Few months later, Uche gave birth to a bouncing baby boy. Their joy knew no bounds including Amara. She took responsibility of birthing the baby and taking care of him.

A year later, Amara also took in and gave birth to a baby boy. Andrew, felt bad and told whoever that cares to listen that he wished he waited patiently with his wife.

In his Will, he gave Amara’s son whom he named ifeanyichukwu the lion’s share and left few portions for Afamefula the late cousin’s wife whom he remarried. He later passed on.

When the contents of the Will was read that ifeanyichukwu got the lion’s share, Uche was not happy but pretended that all was well. She made up her mind to do something about it. Nobody knew about her evil plans because she never showed her bitterness to any of them. 

Amara lived in the township while she resided in the village.

Years later, ifeanyichukwu took over the late father’s business and was managing it. He went to Lagos for his business transaction and on his way the luxurious bus he boarded had a fatal accident, he died on the spot.

The news upturned the lives of his family, they could not be consoled especially the poor mother, Amara. She later became sick and was diagnosed of kidney failure. Before now, five out of the ten girls were already married, remaining five. They took care of their mother but she also died.

Strange things began to happen, like suitors abandoning the remaining five sisters at the altar, or not showing up on the day of the traditional marriage. One out of the girls left the house and went out to live in a brothel. She refused to come home no matter what the sisters did to bring her back.

As God would have it, one of the girls, Nkechi gave her life to Christ and invited some pastors and prayer warriors to her father's compound in the village for prayers. Everybody was invited including Uche and her son Afamefula.

 While the prayers were going on, to the unpleasant surprises of Nkechi and her siblings, she confessed to killing her late husband. Her reason was that the man was very poor. She killed Andrew and Amara because she felt sidelined after the will was read. Made the suitors to hate the girls at the last minutes preparations which made them to abandon them and turned the other one to a prostitute. Her aim was to make sure that her son inherits the properties.

It was indeed a sad experience.


NB. Ifeanyichukwu of blessed memory passed away on the 21st of Dec, 2006 at the age of 24. It is now eleven years. Rest on ifeanyichukwu.

*My goodness!!!!