An Ikeja Magistrate’s Court was told, yesterday, how a woman, Mrs. Adedoyin Ogunmefun, allegedly married two men at the same time.
She was also accused of having children for the two men she allegedly married.
Mrs Ogunmefun, who was arraigned alongside her second husband, before Magistrate B. O. Osunsanmi, over alleged forgery of National Population Commission certificate of birth AO8/NO/0268923 and AO8/NO/0268922 was said to have been married to one Mr. Abraham Okoro, who she had two children for before leaving to have another child for the second husband.
The Police prosecutor, Mr. Benson Emurih, told the court that the defendants presented the forged certificates to Parthcare Laboratory in Oduduwa Crescent, GRA, Ikeja.
He said the offence was punishable under sections 409,363 (3) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.
The complainant, Abraham Okoro, told Vanguard that he had lived with his estranged wife between 2000 and 2007, adding that the union produced two children namely Kymberly Abieyuwa Adenike Okoro and Bryant Amadin Olamipo Okoro, who were born in Nigeria and US respectively.
He further accused the wife of deserting their marriage for Ogunmefun, who she had a daughter for in 2009.
In addition, Okoro said the accused was told that for her to be accepted back into her matrimonial home, she would perform some traditional rites of cleansing.
His words: “She agreed to demonstrate her love and loyalty and moved back to my house on February 14, 2012 and we started living together again until May 17,2012, when she went to an Ikeja High Court to file for nullification of her marriage with Mr Ogunmefun before Justice Oyewole.’’
Okoro, however, said his wife moved out of his house again on November 3, 2012, noting that she suddenly wrote him a letter through her lawyer, Taiwo and Taiwo, in December 2012 claiming that the two children she had for him were not his.
He said: “On March 26, 2013, I got a court summon, the petitioners were Adedoyin Ogunmefun and Babatunde Ogunmefun, claiming that my children were Babatunde’s children, with a fake DNA result purported to embarrass me and my children, the matter which has long been strucked out by a magistrate court sitting in Surulere,” he added.
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See if you had married an Igbo woman you won't have had to deal with this nonsense.
ReplyDeleteLiar! Bad and good people exist everywhere.
DeleteYou really are very little n myopic in both your reasoning n talkin. Igbo Yoruba Hausa efik. Doesn't matter where you're from. Bad n good are everywhere.
Deleteefizyprincipal
ReplyDeleteAll igbo women are great. including the lady that stripped my uncle of all his belonging after 12yrs of married life. Oh no! not everything though, at least he got an old tv set which he had to smuggle out by conniving with his electronic technician.
I can't blive dat we still have tribalist in dis country. Anywayz shame on d woman n men pls wise n open ur eyes.
ReplyDeletePeople, the name Okoro is not unique to Igbos. Isokos/Urhobos also bear Okoro. One of the kids is Abieyuwa, which is obviously Itsekiri. That said, bad behavior is not the exclusive preserve of any ethnic group. Good are bad people abound everywhere. So, people that are quick to castigate bad behavior, based on tribe, should be more circumspect. Olisaemeka.
ReplyDeleteSo terrible to see how tribalistic we still are, in 2013!
ReplyDeleteLadies and gentlemen, if you learn nothing today, please learn this and hold it to heart always:
There are only two tribes of people on earth. Good people and Bad people. Simple.
The story we have heard is only from the man's side. Remember, there are always two sides to a story! So until we have all the facts and have had an opportunity to listen to both of them, we have no right whatsoever, to pass judgments.
Remember, there are only two tribes of people: Good people and Bad people. Irrespective where people come from, and irrespective of their skin colours!
If we apply this principle to our day to day living, the world will definitely be a better place.
By the way, Abieyuwa and Amadin, are lovely Bini names, not Itshekiri, just to correct the contributor above who ascribed Abieyuwa to the Itshekiris.
I should know. I bear one of the names!
God bless.
PROUD NAIJA!
oh God have mercy on us! I sincerely hope this story is fabricated. I cant even imagine this being true.
ReplyDeleteJust wondering when Adedoyin became an Igbo name or am I missing something?
ReplyDelete@ Anonymous 5:26pm, they were referring to the enstranged husband's last name Okoro.
ReplyDeleteI 100% agree with the comments emphasising that tribe has nothing to do with being good OR bad.