The Nigerian man whose wife recently d!ed after a hospital allegedly refused to attend to her because he failed to make a deposit of N500,000, has come out to reply to media personality, Reuben Abati, who recently knocked him for not having money to deposit at the hospital.
While speaking on TV on Tuesday, Abati criticised the bereaved man for failing to financially prepare for the birth of his child when he had nine months to do so.
Abati argued that it was irresponsible of the man to visit the hospital asking for his pregnant wife to be attended to without making any financial commitment.
Abati said:
‘‘The whole substance of this conversation is that according to Mr Folajimi, when he got to Al-Salam Convalescent centre as the hospital is called, he was asked to deposit N500, 000 and the man was saying ‘please admit my wife, I will go and look for the money’. When you impregnate a woman, you can’t come at nine months and you are saying just treat her, let me go and look for the money. There are many people who do that. They put you under pressure.
Mr Folajimi behaved in an irresponsible manner”
Responding to Abati, Mr Folajimi, in a video shared online today April 10, said he saved about N100,000. Unfortunately, his wife had an emergency and he did not have the N500,000 the hospital demanded, but would have raised it if he was given enough time.
‘’With due respect, this is not my first child. When my wife was pregnant, we were taking care of her to the best of my ability and I never came public or to you to ask for you to borrow me money for antenatal or feed my children.
Excuse me Sir, I saved money but I didn’t save up to N500, 000. I saved money for that day but they asked for N500, 000 deposit, not full payment. I didn’t have that. All the money that I could have gathered that day wouldn’t have passed N100,000. I don’t know if it is an offence not to have up to N500,000 when your wife is about to give birth. I don’t know if it is an offence to now live below N500, 000 but you are now saying it is the ‘’highest irresponsibility” because I don’t have N500,000. So it is even a crime to be poor in Nigeria”
Folajimi said himself and others were able to raise the said N500, 000 which they used in paying for the mortuary and other things after her demise.
Watch the video he shared here.
