“As I speak with you, my wife is dying in the hospital back in Ondo
state. She needs money for treatment. You see, I ventured into this all
in a bid to save my wife. I am an orphan. I have been struggling to make
ends meet without making any headway. I have five children but lost one
recently because of lack of fund to provide medicare.
"And now, my wife is on danger list. If she dies, tell me, who will take
care of the children? She was initially taken to the hospital but
because there was no money to pay for the drugs.
"We had to bring her home to administer local herbs on her," said 20yrs
old Owoye Ebiwe who was among 10 pipeline vandals paraded on Monday by
operatives of the Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline vandalism Unit.