A woman who claims to be the biological mother of Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson has taken to social media to share her story and narrate how she lost her children.
She described how she had three children with a Nigerian from Kogi state after being married to him. She was expecting her fourth child when her mother from Cameroon arrived to notify her about her critically ill father’s wish to meet his grandkids before dying.
Mercy Johnson and her older brother Martin Ngei were left with their father and a woman when her husband instructed her to go with only the last kid and for more than 30 years, she has been traveling to and from Nigeria in an attempt to locate her children.
She asserts that when Mercy was eventually located, the actress requested a DNA test to support her claim and she met Mercy’s husband, Prince Okojie, at the hospital.
She stated that Mercy’s husband claimed not to know her and that she was not the person he paid his wife’s bride price to.
She assured him that her purpose in being there was not to take his wife from him. Prince Okojie consented to foot the fee for the DNA test but instructed her to handle her own expenses.
This made the woman feel bad since she had used all of her money to travel to Nigeria.
She revealed that she had been able to make ends meet on her own for so long, she wasn’t pursuing Mercy’s money.
She also disclosed that Mercy was born in 1982 and that her birth name is Ngei Magdalene. She is ready to submit to the DNA test.
Mercy had invited her to Nigeria, but she has been struggling to survive as she has no home here.
“I gave birth to her at a private hospital in Benue state. She is aware that I am her biological mother and she knows that Mercy Johnson is not her real name. In fact when I came to Nigeria she asked me what’s my real name and I told her,” she said in part.
Watch her speak below,
