Thread by @Hejeoma

The screenshot below shared by subdeliveryzone reminds me of a story I always said I was gonna share.

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1. CAVEAT!
“The stories I tell here are factions; that is they are a mixture of facts & fiction. What is fact & what is fiction is only known to me, this is primarily

2. me using humour & plain story-telling to entertain, teach & learn as well from your feedbacks. Please, note that names & incidences do not represent actual persons or experiences. I’m only using my literary license, not motor license O! Ehen!”
August 8, 2013 turned out to be

3. a big day for navy cadet Ifeanyi Ude. On this day, the 25-year-old became an officer of the Nigerian navy after graduating from the Nigeria Defense Academy (NDA) in Kaduna. What made this day even more memorable for him was the moment after the passing out parade where he

4. went down on his knees as he proposed to his girlfriend, & she said yes! Two months later I received an sms from Ify (as we all call him) inviting me to his wedding. I called him immediately to wish him a happy union but being a childhood buddy, I couldn't help asking why the

5. rush. 'O boy na just two months ago you do POP, propose to the babe. Now now una don pick wedding date?' He laughed & said I have have known her for a while now & you know how our work be, I have been posted aboard one of our NNS. We are to set sail soon & wont be back in

6. the country for a long while. Why delay something that's inevitable he said? So after some more chitchat, we said our goodbyes & hung up. Days turned into weeks & the wedding day eventually came. It was all fun seeing so many old buddies, many in their military ceremonial

7. outfit. The usual sword crossing for military officers wedding was done & they became a couple. We partied into the night until my husband & I got tired & decided to call it a day. We walked up to our hosts to wish them a happy union once again & let them know we were about

8. leaving. Ify & I promised to stay in touch, we said our good byes. In the space of three years, we exchanged a few text messages and then kind of drifted apart. Then one day I got a call from him; 'Aijay, I am divorcing my wife'. Ah Ah! Just like that! Una young bloods sef.

9. If na so our own blood take dey hot, you sure say either me or husband for never shoot each other? I asked to calm the tension. He replied 'Aijay I am not joking, my daughter is dead & the witch is responsible for her death!' Wait a second! I said! Can you please go back a

10. bit & rewind? We haven't spoken in a while so I never knew about a child & now you are calling to tell me about divorce. That was when I heard one of the weirdest stories I have ever heard in my life. Prior to them getting married, Ify had requested they both carry out tests

11. to show their blood groups/genotype. He said he had always known he is AS so he needed to be sure which genotype his lady was. He said she couldn't make it the day they planned on going to a lab together instead she came a few days later with a result which showed her as AA.

12. He said with that he decided to go ahead with the wedding. A few years later she gave birth to their daughter. He said he had returned to Nigeria four months before she put to bed. He got her to apply for a US visa which she got & then traveled to the states where she would

13. eventually deliver & also be with her elder sister who happened to live in America. After she gave birth, she stayed in the US for 7 more months, in that time their baby was sick for a few weeks. The wife told him it was normal kiddies stuff & nothing to worry about. On the

14. 7 month they returned to Nigeria. He said few weeks after they returned he was redeployed to Delta state. His wife had started work in Lagos & there was no way he could get her and their child to follow him to warri so they built a schedule where he would either visit them

15. in Lagos or they come to him in Warri. In that time, the wife would tell him how she had taken their child to hospital & how the kid was doing fine after taking some medication. He never doubted anything until one day when his aunt who is based in Lagos called him screaming

16. frantically on the phone. She said his wife had called her to come meet her at a hospital in Lagos & on getting there she saw the little one crying from so much pain, the baby was also having serious nose bleeds. Baby needed blood transfusion immediately. Ify said he was

17. alarmed & rushed to see his CO, after explaining the situation of his child, his CO granted him permission to travel to go be with his family. By the time he got to Lagos, the baby had died. Imagine my shock Aijay, he said. I wont get into details everything that happened

18. that day at the hospital because I even cant remember everything. All I know is, we took our baby & buried her. I got home after the burial & could only sit & stare for days, the navy had granted me a few more weeks to be with my wife and mourn. One morning, I went into our

19. bedroom looking for a document & started going through all the drawers, then I saw some medical papers she came back from the US with. I am no doctor but I would see a few words like icterus, hemoglobin, hypoxia etc. My wife wasn't home so I packed those documents got into

20. the car & drove to the hospital where my daughter died. Before I left the base, I had gone to the base armorer and requested for a service pistol which I took with me to the hospital. On getting there, I demanded to see the doctor who was on call the day my daughter died.

21. The instant I was ushered into his office, I threw the medical papers on his table & drew my side arm. I said to him, explain all the stuff in that paper & tell me exactly how my daughter died or so help me God, I will send you to meet her where you will continue treating

22. her! It was then he gave me news that broke my heart! My child was born with sickle cell anemia! She had always suffered from birth until she died! All the time I was away, she would occasionally have crisis which made he spend days on end at the hospital & my wife never

23. told me! How on earth could she be a sickler when my wife is AA I asked the doctor? Is that what she said to you the doctor replied? Sir, you better go back home & take this up with your wife, we aren't responsible for your baby's death. No one is responsible, she suffered

24. too much that her fragile body couldn't take it any more. Your wife is AS to the best of my knowledge he went on to tell me. At this time, I had dropped the gun on his table. A lot of things were going through my mind; how could she have deceived me this way for so long?

25. I was later able to gather my thoughts & I drove back to the base, I made sure I had returned the pistol to the armory lest I was tempted to do something stupid. She came back home few minutes after me, I threw the papers at her feet when she walked. I said to her; why did

26. you lie to me you are AA when you are actually AS? That was when she broke down and started screaming. Aijay, I cant live with this woman because all she does is remind me of my dead baby!

The End.