Ruth and Naomi were twin sisters living in Cross river state in the south eastern part of Nigeria. They had parents, but had a long time been separated from them, because of a practice which arose from a mere superstition which if hadn't existed, a lot of children would still be alive.
It all began long ago. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Obi had been married for more than five years and never got to conceive. They sought several doctors, priests and herbalists but all were in vain. After so much praying and fasting, they managed to conceive and thankfully, it was a success. They gave birth to twins. It was a great but devastating news because after so much effort into getting a child, they were blessed with two and sooner or later, these two would be taken from them.
Seeing as it was considered a taboo to have twins because the people thought that twins were from the devil and therefore took to separating twins from their parents, killing them with knives, leaving them to suffocate to death in clay pots or leaving them in deserted areas so they’d starve to death.

Mr. and Mrs. Obi on knowing this, hid both children in their home and whenever they had a guest, they introduced one to their guest and hid the second one. At another time, they introduced a different child and hid the one who had been introduced the last time they had a guest. They just kept inter changing their children to meet the guests without arousing any suspicion as they did their work perfectly. If one got injured, they’d ensure to get the other injured so that no one could have the slightest hint of what was going on in their home.

They wanted to stop guests from coming because it was getting rather difficult and exhausting to interchange the children, clean up any evidence of the presence of twins in a hurry because guests rather showed up impromptu but since the people in their area knew that Mrs. Obi was expecting, people would surely come to pay her a visit after the 9 months gestation period.

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