N5m donated to correct bladder of boy born without pennies stolen by woman entrusted with money

The hope of becoming a father in future by little Testimony Atoe might be a pipe dream if the woman entrusted with donations from the general public to the tone of N 5.3 million do not surface with the money meant to correct the bladder problem.

In an interview with the mother in Benin City, Mrs. Charity Atoe, she said the runaway woman who volunteered to bring her bank account number when pressmen in Lagos discovered she had refused to give her back the money donated to her in order to come back to University of Benin Teaching Hospital (U.B.T.H) where her son was earlier diagnosed with the ailment to undergo the operation, but insisted that the little boy’s bladder problem be treated in Lagos while she pays the bill.

Mrs. Atoe, mother of four said her husband, Mr. Osabohien Atoe abandoned her in a private hospital where she put to birth at Third East Circular road in Benin City as soon as he discovered that his son was born without manhood, hereby leaving her without choice but to sought for help from the public for the past two years.

According to her, she went to ITV and EBS in Benin where she was featured on air, but there was no help, prompting her to go to the Government House several times, but could not meet with the Comrade Governor after sending several messages through his aides.

Earlier, Mrs. Atoe Said that her son was referred to University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH where she was told that the sum of N900,000 is needed to correct  her baby’s  bladder problem before it becomes very late.

The embattled mother however said she was advised to travel to Lagos to seek the help of Prophet TB Joshua. “when I got to Ikotun, I could not see TB Joshua then people around advised me to go to the Redeemed Christian Church in Lagos, but on getting there the doors were locked but I was very tired and went to a nearby shop to buy sachet water from a shop owner whom I told my problem and the reason that made me visit Lagos”.

 According to Mrs. Atoe, the woman, Mrs. Blessing Uzetu From Abia State sympathized with her and immediately invited the press who interviewed her and asked if she had a bank account to give to the public where funds could be sent to, but unfortunately she had non and immediately the woman that invited the press made her own available to them and promised to open one for Mrs. charity Atoe later.

The thirty eight years mother of the boy said each time she asked the Mrs. Blessing who is a widow with three children to open the account for her and transfer the money, she gives one excuse or another.

She said donations were sent from all parts of the world. “Money was sent from Germany, US, London, Warri, Port Harcourt and other states. All the money was N 5.3 Million”.

Mrs. Atoe said trouble started when she asked of the money in order for her to travel back to Benin and get the bladder operation done in UBTH, but the Abia born woman insisted that the little Testimony problem can be corrected in an hospital in Ikeja where she live. “The woman took me to a doctor in Ikeja who said the problem can be corrected there but I told the doctor that I want to come back to UBTH in Benin which the doctor agreed, but Mrs. Blessing refused and said if I took my child to any theatre apart from the one she told me to go, I will not bring my child alive. The woman said she was going to pay the hospital bills which I refused but before I knew anything, the woman packed out from her residents and her phone number stop going through, that is why I came back to Benin to beg Oshiomhole again to help me so that my child can father children and be a complete man when he grows up”, She cried out.

When asked if she had reported the matter to the police in Lagos or Benin, the woman said she had not done that but have tried to reach some of those who contributed earlier to correct her son’s problem that the woman entrusted  with the money ran away                 

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