A staff of Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, Mr Emmanuel Peter Wahatana, has revealed that his wife left him after he lost his job.
Wahatana a non-academic staff of the Department of Animal Health and Production, said, he was arbitrarily sacked from his job 3rd January 2013 by the Rector of the Polytechnic, Dr. Sadiq Yahaya.
After the unexpected loss of his job, he fell into difficult times as life become rough and unbearable.
“My wife left me simply because things were not as good as they were. Every effort to let her reason with me and be patient with me failed
“Firstly, my close friend who was also my landlord evicted me from his house because my rent was due and I couldn’t renew it at the appropriate time.
Secondly, it was one of my friend that went and pay for the house, and pressured them to eject me for him to enter the house”, he stated.
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“It got to the point that I couldn’t afford her recommended meals and drugs because there was no money. I watched my mother dying because of lack of money to get her drugs. All these affected my family so badly, but thank God for being God.
“It is exactly 10 years 4 months now since I was sacked. As a matter of fact, I am alive by the mercies of God. The termination has caused me too much damaged that I don’t want to remember,” he narrated. He described his sacking from the Polytechnic as unlawful and premeditated”, he said.
