To especially mothers, the gift of children is a precious thing; one that they do not allow even the most daunting circumstances to steal away from them, but in the case of John Baptist Ayedze (now a lawyer), and his twin brother, the broken pieces of his family launched them into early lives of the unknown.
And it all started when they were about nine (9) years old and their mother had to re-marry.
What was supposed to be an opportunity for them to be welcomed with open-arms under a new roof, was their first rejection - right in the face because, "the man she got married to said that he did not want have anything to do with this boy." It was a place between a rock and a hard place for their mother but she wanted to remain married and so, as John shared on Joy FM, they had to find their way out and begin their solo survival.
But their father was alive at the time so they turned to him, largely hopeful, even though, as he also shared, "I've never seen the two of them (parents) together since I grew up." Luck, once again, was not on their side when their father - who was never in the picture, because until then, they had only been living with their mother, equally rejected them. "So, that's how the troubles started.
