Eunice Adu Poku, a Ghanaian lady based in the UK shared a story of how she travelled through Yugoslavia in a toolbox of an articulated truck with her husband while heavily pregnant.
In an interview on SVTV Africa with DJ Nyaami, Eunice revealed that she left Ghana with her husband (now ex) in 1989 while three months pregnant. Unfortunately, they were deported from Italy and sent back to Malta.
Eunice and her husband travelled back to Tunisia for a Bulgaria transit visa but were refused entry again.
“So, we got an articulated truck and the driver hid us under his mattress in the car. He later told us we might be caught at the border and told us to hide inside the toolbox instead.
I was seven months pregnant. My husband was against it but I agreed with the driver. The driver knew we could die and often stopped to open the box for air. At the border, they checked the mattress and knocked on the toolbox but did not think people could fit in there,” she recounted.
According to Eunice, she had a week to deliver her child but did not want to give birth in Yugoslavia. Eunice and her husband were arrested on their way to Italy and transported back twice. They made it to the Italian border on their third attempt.
