Woman spends children’s school fees on brother’s bail, tells husband she was robbed

The story of a Nigerian woman who used her children’s school fees to pay her brother’s bail after he was arrested for drug dealing abroad has gone viral. 

According to the tweet by @Neo_officiall, she had earlier asked her husband to give her N400,000 to send to her parents as her contribution to the release of her brother, who was caught dealing drugs abroad. Her husband made it clear that he was managing their resources and could not spare that amount of money for a criminal.

Coincidentally, he gave her N450,000 to pay their children’s fees. She left the house, went to a POS and sent the money to her parents. She then went into an uncompleted building in a lonely area, tore her clothes, and used blocks and bottles to inflict wounds on herself before heading back home. When she lied to her husband that she was robbed and the money was taken from her, he believed her and nursed her back to health.

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The truth was revealed when he overheard her on a phone call with her mother discussing how she had tricked her husband to get the money. It was also learned that she had been lying to her husband about the actual amount of money for their children’s fees, she’d been inflating the cost.

“Just heard a story that shook me. So there is fire on the mountain in this marriage and this is what happened. The wife asked the husband to give her 400k in this economy so she can send to her parents as hen contribution for the release of her brother, who was caught dealing drugs abroad. Her husband made it clear that he is managing whatever resources they have and so cannot just waste that amount of money not even for a life and death situation but to help a criminal.

“She kept on putting pressure on the man but he insisted. Looked like it will ruin her marriage so she stopped but the pressure from home kept coming. Coincidentally, it was the start of the new school year, the husband gave her 450k to go pay the school fees of their 3 kids since she has been the one paying it. She left the house, went to a POS and sent the money to her parents. She then went into an uncompleted building in a lonely area, tore her clothes, used blocks and bottles to inflict wounds on herself then called her husband crying and shouting that she was beaten and robbedgunpointoint and the whole money collected from her.”

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“The innocent and unsuspecting husband rushed to her wife’s aid, took her to the hospital & they even wenThanksgivinggiving. Mind you that this same woman has been inflating the school fees of all her kids. Whenever she received the school’s letter, she’d go to a cyber cafe to inflate the prices before showing it to her unsuspecting husband. I even got to find out that some of the bursars in schools now team up with some wives to steal from their husbands. In a bid to cover up their tracks, many wives have the phone numbers of bursars to alert them on the days when the husbands will be coming to pay the fees for the kids. The bursars will of course lie and stick to the inflated fees that the husbands are already used to, after which they now collect a percentage and send the rest to the wives.

“Anyway I think the husband overheard her conversation on the phone with her mother which is how the whole plan scattered. The man has been the one fully providing for her and sometimes her parents and younger siblings and the one time he didn’t provide, the wife did this. Na the matter dy hot for my street now,” He tweeted.

Just heard a story that shook me. So there is fire on the mountain in this marriage and this is what happened. The wife asked the husband to give her 400k in this economy so she can send to her parents as her own contribution for the release of her brother, who was caught dealing

— Neo_officiall (@Neo_officiall) July 20, 2023