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| Rosnia hugging her mother during a reunion at Kampung Pengalat Besar |
KOTA KINABALU: For 16 years, a housewife here never stopped praying for her daughter to return after she ran away from home to elope with her boyfriend.
The prayers of Saina Ibrahim, 52, were answered on Thursday when she was finally re-united with her daughter Rosnia Sapili, thanks to Papar Umno Youth.
Saina said she was heartbroken when Rosnia, her eldest child, abandoned their home at Kg Pengalat Besar in Sabah's south-western Papar district to elope with her boyfriend to Sulawesi, Indonesia.
“I never stopped searching and hoping for her to come back one day,” Saina said as she hugged her daughter, who now has three children of her own.
Rosnia, 36, said she made the rash decision of leaving the family after being convinced by her Indonesian boyfriend's sweet promises of a happy life with him.
Naive and madly in love at the time, Rosnia ran away with the man and married him but her dream life crumbled in just four years when he left her and their sons.
“It was really tough bringing up my children alone without anyone to help me.
“I thought of coming home many times but I was too ashamed and did not have money,” Rosnia said.
She also claimed that she had never seen her eldest son since her husband took him away when he was three.
Papar Umno Youth chief Armizan Mohd Ali said the Umno division undertook the mission to locate Rosnia and tracked her down to Ujung Padang after hearing of Saina's plight a year ago.
He said the cost of the mission was borne by Papar MP Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin and Kawang assemblyman Datuk Gulam Haidar Khan Bahadar.
The prayers of Saina Ibrahim, 52, were answered on Thursday when she was finally re-united with her daughter Rosnia Sapili, thanks to Papar Umno Youth.
Saina said she was heartbroken when Rosnia, her eldest child, abandoned their home at Kg Pengalat Besar in Sabah's south-western Papar district to elope with her boyfriend to Sulawesi, Indonesia.
“I never stopped searching and hoping for her to come back one day,” Saina said as she hugged her daughter, who now has three children of her own.
Rosnia, 36, said she made the rash decision of leaving the family after being convinced by her Indonesian boyfriend's sweet promises of a happy life with him.
Naive and madly in love at the time, Rosnia ran away with the man and married him but her dream life crumbled in just four years when he left her and their sons.
“It was really tough bringing up my children alone without anyone to help me.
“I thought of coming home many times but I was too ashamed and did not have money,” Rosnia said.
She also claimed that she had never seen her eldest son since her husband took him away when he was three.
Papar Umno Youth chief Armizan Mohd Ali said the Umno division undertook the mission to locate Rosnia and tracked her down to Ujung Padang after hearing of Saina's plight a year ago.
He said the cost of the mission was borne by Papar MP Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin and Kawang assemblyman Datuk Gulam Haidar Khan Bahadar.
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