Little Timothy Atoe is quite too young to be aware of his current predicament. He is yet to know the importance and function of a missing vital organ in his body because he is just three years old. His problems? Timothy was born without the male organ. At the place where there is supposed to be the organ is a lump and little testicles. Test results, according to his mother, Charity, showed that Timothy is a male.
The mother said Timothy’s pee used to soak his panties for her to know that he has urinated. Timothy’s supposed male organ is reddish and appears to be growing. Timothy’s problem has been further compounded as a supposed N5 million donated for his surgery has vanished due to ignorance of the mother.
Timothy’s plight might have become a meal ticket for perhaps his parents and some greedy persons who pretends to offer help. He was born without penis and after a first operation doctors at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, doctors demanded the sum of N900,000 for a proper surgical operation that would restore the genital organ.
His father, a bricklayer, abandoned him to his fate, while the mother who simply identified herself as Charity, said she took the pains to look for fund to carry out the operation. She stormed the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalist in Edo State to narrate her endless quest to find solution to her son’s problem.
Charity said she wrote the Edo State government for assistance and after several failed attempts to raise the money in Edo State, she relocated to Lagos State with the hope of getting help at the Synagogue Church of All Nations led by Prophet T B Joshua. She is back from Lagos crying for more help.
She is calling on the Police to help her unravel the whereabouts of one Blessing Asatu, whom she alleged eloped with the N5m fund donated for her son’s surgery.
She said: “My husband ran away after he has spent lots of money on this condition. He is a bricklayer and I used to sell garri. I stopped to enable me look for money to take care of Timothy. I have children for two husbands. Two girls for another man and two boys for this man that ran away. I have not seen my husband for the past eight months. I have been to several places and no help came. I have been looking for help for the past three years.
“After looking for help in Benin without any forthcoming. I decided to go to TB Joshua church. On my way, someboday said I should go to Redeemed Church. It was where I was to buy sachet water to drink that I met one woman by name Blessing Usatu.
“She promised to help me and within few minutes I saw pressmen asking me questions and the report was published the next day alongside my photographs. After two days, I started receiving calls from individuals across the world stating that they have paid money into an account provided alongside the story. I did not know that the account was in her name. She has a store at Ikeja opposite the Redeem church. We went to the hospital at Lagos and Dr. Bankole asked her to give me the money to go and do the operation in Benin but she refused. I used to sleep at Ijesha outside The Lord Chosen Church.
“Somebody brought N600,000 cash which I saw. I was given N100,000 and the woman said she would keep the rest. I later gave her N80,000 out of the N100,000. Whenever I am going for check-up, she would give me N2000. She said I should go and call my husband before she would hand me the money. I went to the Zenith bank and the bank officials my picture was not in the account. I really need help. I do not know that the woman was out to dupe me. I have been calling her and her number is not connecting.”
Charity said she was not in possession of copies of the doctor’s report as well the account number used by Blessing to raise fund for her son.