A blind elderly father has been left alone and homeless after his children allegedly abandoned him to take care of their mother.\u00a0A Good Samaritan named Olapeju Agunbiade posted the man’s plight on Facebook after a commercial motorcycle rider dropped him off at Omotayo Maternity late at night and left him there.\u00a0The man, identified as Mr Olaseni Arotiba, 75, was taken in, given a place to spend the night, and fed.\u00a0When asked about his home and family, he explained that he had been staying in a hotel and the hotel just evicted him because they needed to renovate. He said he spent the previous night in the home of his “caregiver” but had to leave.\u00a0Asked who paid for his hotel, he said his son Mayorkun Arotiba paid for him to stay in the hotel for an extended period but he can no longer be reached.\u00a0He added that the hotel did not want to evict him, so they called his son Mayorkun to come and pick him but Mayorkun never showed up.\u00a0The maternity staff took his phone and called his children, but they didn’t want anything to do with him.\u00a0When she was called, his daughter said: “I do not have a father. I ceased to have a father when i was a child.”\u00a0His son was also called but he said he is in the hospital looking after their mum. He added that he and his sister are both busy taking care of their mother.\u00a0“The long and short is that none of his contact is ready to care for him or take responsibility,” the Good Samaritan said.\u00a0All the elderly man has in his account is N10,000.\u00a0Efforts to get a nursing home to accept him have been unsuccessful so far.\u00a0In an update, Olapeju said the elderly man has now been taken to “Ring Road state hospt. Accident and Emergency dept.”\u00a0She urged parents to be involved in the lives of their families to avoid experiencing the old man’s reality.\u00a0She wrote: “So much came out of this encounter.\u00a0“Let us do all it takes to take care of what we call home. This include our wives\/husbands, sisters, brothers, cousins, friends and our neighbours.\u00a0\u00a0“Omo niyi,omo ni de. Omo lasheinde to ba dale. E se re ko dara o. That future is closer than we assume.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0See video of the elderly man lamenting below.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0View this post on Instagram\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A post shared by Lindaikejiblog (@lindaikejiblogofficial)\u00a0The post Good Samaritan shares response received from children of old and ailing man who has nowhere to go and no one to care for him appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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