Thirty-three-year-old Lagos-based identical triplets, Omolola, Omolara, and Omotola Okueso, have shared their interesting experiences while growing up, including how their father ran away from home for three days after learning their mother gave birth to triplets instead of the twins the scan had revealed.
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In an interview with PUNCh, the triplets, who are all teachers and co-founders of a dropshipping business called “Tripplefied Stores,” spoke about their childhood, mistaken identity experiences, and their collective ambition to own a school.
Omolola, the first of the triplets, narrated the story of their birth as told by their late mother.
“She said the scan revealed it was twins she carried in her womb. So, when my father heard that my mother gave birth to triplets, he ran away. He didn’t come home for three days. My mother delivered us naturally. So, she was tired, almost crawling to do things at home for one week.
“When my father returned, my paternal grandmother was furious that he left my mum. She almost had a physical fight with my dad if not for the intervention of the neighbours.”
Omolola recounted how their birth attracted massive public attention.
“The medical director of a private hospital at Ilasamaja (Lagos State) where we were born had to close the gate of his hospital because people were trooping to come and see us. It was a rare thing at the time.
“When she carried us home, the traditional ruler of our community at Itire was giving us food. Another monarch removed his regalia and gave it to our mum to sew clothes for us.”
Omolola shared an amusing incident of mistaken identity in secondary school.
“There was a time in our secondary school that one of my sisters bought food at the food shed. So, I came downstairs to play during the break and I saw a woman, one of the food vendors coming angrily at me, shouting, ‘Where is my money?’ I was asking, ‘Which money? When did I buy food from you?’
“She was yelling and creating a scene already. I calmed her down because I quickly knew it could be one of my sisters. That was when I told her that she should check my earrings because we didn’t put on the same earrings for recognition. Then, she became calm and started apologising.”
It turned out it was Omolara who had bought the food.
Omolara, the second triplet, shared her own mistaken identity experience involving a suitor.
“There was a time in 2010 when I was working as a sales girl at a frozen food store. I was about to go home, when a guy who was trying to date my sister accosted me at the store. He wanted to date Omotola, so he was begging me. It was funny that night.
“I was telling him that I was not Omotola. When he followed me home, I didn’t talk. I just went home and called Omotola.
“Another one was my husband when we were dating. He saw Omolola and was talking to her outside. My sister just came inside to come and call me. Truly, it’s Omolola and I who have much resemblance.”
Omotola, the third and described as the gentlest of the triplets, revealed that while their mother could easily identify them, their father struggled.
“My mother didn’t have a problem identifying us, probably because she gave birth to us. But our dad usually found it difficult to do. He couldn’t even differentiate us facially let alone with our voices.
“We used to play pranks on him. He couldn’t differentiate us from one another based on our faces and voices. One day, I wore Omolara’s clothes, and my dad was calling me, saying, ‘Omolara, come here.’ The three of us laughed. Then, he said jokingly, ‘You, these children are a bunch of unserious elements.'”
The triplets fondly remembered their late mother as a disciplinarian.
“My mum of blessed memory was a disciplinarian. She was a no-nonsense type of woman. We didn’t like to infuriate her. When we were in secondary school, we dared not bring failure report cards home. She would beat us when we performed below expectations. Though we attended a public school, she didn’t want us to see it as an excuse for failure,” Omolola said.
The triplets recalled how they protected each other while growing up.
“It reminds me of an incident when we were in junior classes in secondary school. A girl bullied one of us because of our small stature. The three of us came together and beat her up. It took the intervention of the teachers who were shouting in Yoruba, ‘Ibeta, e fi si le!’ meaning ‘Triplets, leave her alone!’ That was a particularly childish behaviour anyway as we later became friends with her,” Omolola narrated.
All three triplets became teachers:
- Omolola has been teaching for 15 years and is an early years tutor
- Omolara has been a primary school teacher for 10 years
- Omotola has been teaching for 13 years
They also co-founded a dropshipping business called “Tripplefied Stores.”
“The idea of solving problems and getting values is global. We just thought about an online store. However, it was Omolola who brought the idea to us, and we all embraced it. The business has been growing since then,” Omolara explained.
Despite living in different areas and being married (except Omolola who is engaged), the triplets remain close.
“My sisters and I still connect despite the fact that we are living in different areas. We call and hang out once in a while. So, our husbands and Omolola’s fiancé play along with us. They support us. My husband once sewed the same clothes for the three of us for our birthday.
“If anything worries one of us, it worries the three of us, and our spouses have no choice than to help us. We still go to one another’s houses to help with chores. When we go to parties, we still wear the same clothes,” Omolara said.
The triplets revealed their collective aspiration.
“Our first collective aspiration is to have a school. We usually discuss that. We discovered a long time ago that the three of us love to impart knowledge. We love education; we still have an ambition to have university degrees by God’s grace, and we also aspire to work in public schools before setting up our own,” Omotola stated.
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