Free Man<\/strong><\/p>\nBut in her petitions to the Commissioner of Police in Imo and the EFCC dated November 13 and December 8, 2020, respectively, the American had assured the authorities that she would come to Nigeria to testify against the suspects and provide necessary documented evidence including witnesses to support her testimony. She regretted that more than one year after, the suspect is free.<\/p>\n
The petition read: \u201cI am writing in regards to the fraudulent marriage and money scam, defamation of character, conspiracy, and threats to my life and my family in the US.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was committed by Obinna Peter Ezenwa Egbueriaku, Vivian Ezechukwu Ginika, Collins Anthony Obiegbule and other participants within this crime ring. I am asking for all participants to be arrested.<\/p>\n
\u201cI met Obinna on an American dating website in September of 2018. Sometime around the beginning of December of 2018, Obinna asked me to come to Nigeria with the hope of marriage.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me that he would plan the wedding and, when I arrived in Owerri, we would be married.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter arriving at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Obinna picked me up with a man by the name of Donny.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe took me to a hotel in Festac, Lagos, named De Santiago Milan. After we got to the hotel, he told me that we needed to buy a vehicle the next day to move around Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we arrived at the car dealer which he claimed that he knew from his schoolmates, Obinna compelled me to pay for the vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt intimidated all the while he was choosing a vehicle. He picked out a Lexus 350 SUV and mandated me to pay 11,000 USD to the car dealer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI agreed, however, the wire from my bank to the car dealer\u2019s bank was taking a very long time and we had to stay in Lagos for a week to make sure the wire went through.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we wait for that, Obinna took my phone at one point, added his friend in the US, wired 11,500 to him and then told me it was an accident.<\/p>\n
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Marriage Registry<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cAfter one week, we drove from Lagos to Owerri where we went to a hotel and then to one of Obinna\u2019s friend\u2019s house to stay the rest of my time.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring this period, Obinna took me to some elders\u2019 house which I now believe that he paid the husband and wife to come and be our witness in a marriage ceremony.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is obvious now that my marriage with Obinna was planned to take as much money from me and start his life with Vivian Ginika, to who he was later engaged.<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked Obinna why his family did not attend our wedding and he told me that they were all busy.<\/p>\n
\u201cObinna and I briefly talked about having a wedding ceremony when he came to America with my family and friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore I left for the US, he also made me open a joint banking account with him at an Access Bank branch in 4th Avenue, Festac. To this day, the bank has refused to close that account for me.<\/p>\n
Ponzi Scam<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cOn my return to America, we continued to talk but it was always about money. He needed money for one thing or the other.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne time, he told me that he had found out that he could invest my money in a company called OPUS.<\/p>\n
\u201cI gave him 10,000USD and never received one penny back. He later told me that the company was a ponzi scam. Once, he made me give him money to buy a bus and make money from it. He told me many times that he would pay me back.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring this period, Obinna told me that he had travelled to Abuja and received his visa and would join me in the US to start our new life together. I always paid for his travels and visa processes because he told me that I am his wife and needed to pay.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn January 1, 2020, he pressured me to come back to Nigeria. I told him that if he paid my way, I would come. He would not pay my way but I did come back to Lagos in February even during the pandemic and stayed for 10 days. \u201cWhen we arrived at the hotel, he held me hostage and made me wire him money. At this point, I went into the bathroom and cried. It took 4-5 days for the money to come to his account before he could let me leave the hotel room.<\/p>\n
Social Media<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cAfter leaving Nigeria with a different feeling from Obinna, I started looking into some of his social media accounts and found out that he had met a woman named Vivian Ezechukwu Ginika while he was in school.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found numerous postings of how much he loved her and glad she was in his life. I believe that she is an accomplice to this crime of fraud.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter learning of his relationship with Vivian, I became enraged and started posting on his friends\u2019 social media and when he found out, he became very aggressive and went to the extreme and called my children in America and told them that I raped him when I came to Nigeria. \u201cHe told them so many lies and said he was going to have someone hurt me. Obinna also sent many threats of violence to me and my family.<\/p>\n
Marriage Engagement<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cIn September 2021, after being very depressed and suicidal, I found the pictures of Vivian and Obinna\u2019s engagement all over the internet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like a complete fool. I realized that I have been scammed. I believe they took as much money as they could from me to start their lives together.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe after adding all the money that I have wired him and taken to Nigeria, it would be at around or close to $50,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also have many accounts that I used to wire money. I have all the transaction numbers, many pictures evidence and threats that came to me from Obinna or his partners.<\/p>\n
\u201cObinna always told me that nothing would ever happen to him because he was a big man and his friends were big people. Please, take this seriously and get him arrested and I will come to Nigeria to testify against him if need be\u201d.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a family affair \u2013 Ezenwa<\/strong><\/p>\nReacting to the allegations, Ezenwa insisted he was not and has never been a fraudster in his life, describing the misunderstanding between him and Ann as a family affair.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt\u2019s just a family issue. You and somebody are in love and something happened along the line, you felt that this person doesn\u2019t worth it and you moved on.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe person got married and you came back to fight this person. What I\u2019m trying to let you know is that there was no form of fraud and what had happened was within our marriage period before some Nigerians started feeding her with false information.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe left and for seven months, there were no communications between us and in the eighth month, I got married. After I got married, she surfaced again and started fighting me. That was when she called the police on me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis matter has been with the anti-kidnapping unit of the Imo State Police Command, and even the EFCC is aware of it. There\u2019s no form of fraud. I\u2019m not a fraudster.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a matter of fact, I was one-time SUG President of FUTO. Ann was a woman I got married to in 2019 and whatever she did was within our marriage. When she came and explained that she wouldn\u2019t like to be entering buses, she bought a car.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo many expenses were done because she came to Nigeria in 2018 and 2020 and the money spent on her flight tickets for coming here to and fro on two occasions including other expenses like health bills, airfares, marriage processes, preparations and the money used in buying the car was what she said I scammed her of.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Attorney General of Imo State is my brother and he\u2019s aware of this matter. Also, the Commissioner at ISOPADEC (Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission) came to the police station with his lawyer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe told the police that when the complainant is ready for the matter, she should come with her lawyer and we will go to court; and that was how the whole matter ended.\u201d<\/p>\n
Threats to Life<\/strong><\/p>\nOn the threat to the complainant\u2019s life, the former student leader explained that he has been exonerated by the police.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe sent the threat message to the police and, after investigation, the police found out that I was not the one who sent that message\u201d, Ezenwa said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat she does with her Nigerian cohorts is that they will open fake accounts with my pictures and name, chat themselves and screenshot and send across everywhere that I am the one.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the same story she has been telling everybody that I threatened to kill her and her family. What\u2019s my business with her? Why will I threaten her? How will I leave my business and family responsibility and be looking for whom to kill?<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one year plus that she has been tarnishing my image.\u201d<\/p>\n
He, however, alleged that it was Ann who has been threatening him and his family and vowed to arrest her anytime she came to Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Arrest<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThere are people she is using to operate in Nigeria now. Those people are calling and threatening my parents, siblings, friends with hidden numbers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m picking up everybody that is involved in this matter including Ann. I will arrest her anywhere I see her and also arrest anybody who is involved with her matter because the life of my wife and family is at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if he properly divorced his American wife before getting married to his latest wife, he responded in the affirmative. \u201cYes, I have divorced her. She is no longer my wife\u201d, Ezenwa affirmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis woman we are talking about had married three times before marrying me. He married a man from California, her second was from Germany while the third was a Yoruba man she met in Georgia.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has not divorced any of them except the first man. It was after we got married that I discovered these things because when she went to file for my visa, the embassy told her that she could not do anything like that because she was still married to two people \u2013 the German and Nigerian guys. That\u2019s when I discovered she had married three times before marrying me\u201d.<\/p>\n
Fake Divorced Papers<\/strong><\/p>\nBut a lawyer, Chidera Emeruem, popularly known as Barrister Slash, who was initially contracted by the complainant, faulted the claims by the suspect that he had properly divorced his wife, alleging the divorce papers were forged.<\/p>\n
Barrister Slash said: \u201cThe suspect purported to have dissolved the marriage with his wife. But like I pointed out to the police, the documents were forged. \u201cThe judgment order dissolving the marriage was forged. The judgment was purported to have been given by a particular judge under the hand and seal of another judge, which judges were retired and no longer judges in Imo State Judiciary as of the time the judgment was given. \u201cSo, as far as I\u2019m concerned, the marriage has not been dissolved\u201d.<\/p>\n
The lawyer also said the case has not been discontinued.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened was when the young man was arrested following a petition to the police from his wife, she contacted me and I went there and wrote a statement to the police on her behalf.<\/p>\n
\u201cI then asked her to give me an authority in writing to represent her in her absence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also encouraged her to come to Nigeria to testify against the suspect. But she said she was scared and not sure she would be safe when she comes to Nigeria as her husband has threatened her before now. I told her that she would be safe but she didn\u2019t believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a clean slate \u2013 Imo PPRO<\/strong><\/p>\nImo State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Michael Abattam, said he was not aware of any such matter as he was new in the state, stressing that it would be difficult to ascertain the status of the case because there were over one million of such cases at the command.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresently, I don\u2019t know where the case was reported, I don\u2019t know who\u2019s investigating, and I don\u2019t know the parties involved\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs it stands now, I\u2019m a clean slate, I don\u2019t know anything about it. So I cannot start looking for who\u2019s investigating the case because we have a lot of offices here\u201d.<\/p>\n
Matter on course \u2013 IPO<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Investigating Police Officer, IPO, handling the case, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, also confirmed that he was still handling the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a reported case of fraud, a scam. The suspect was arrested and detained in protective custody\u201d, the IPO said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the course of investigation, he pleaded some alibi which was investigated as at then. At a time, he was given administrative bail with a reliable surety which, whenever he is called upon, would come to the office.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then, there was nobody coming to stand for the complainant. I was the one who advised the woman who is abroad to contract an attorney over there to stand for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe woman asked me to assist her and I gave her a number of a lawyer, one Barrister Slash, who works with one of the prominent law firms in Owerri.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the lawyer who detected some errors in the file that even assisted us in doing the job. At a time, she could not procure a lawyer, so the boy was granted bail.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I want the woman to do is to procure somebody who will come and stand for her so that when we go to court, the case will not fail. \u201cThe suspect is at my reach to get him any time and there\u2019s no need of bringing him to the office every day when I\u2019m not yet prepared to take him to court\u201d.<\/p>\n
EFCC Keeps Mum<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen Vanguard contacted, the spokesperson for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, requested that a copy of the petition and acknowledgement email be forwarded to him via his WhatsApp line.<\/p>\n
But as of the time of filing this report, subsequent efforts to get him to speak on this issue were unsuccessful as he neither replied his WhatsApp messages nor answered his calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An American woman, Ann (other names withheld), has accused her estranged husband, Mr. Obinna Ezenwa (Egbueriaku), a former President of Students Union Government, SUG, of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, in 2015, and others of defrauding her of about $50,000 (about N20 million in today\u2019s exchange rate). According to Vanguard, others mentioned in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":141805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28842,28843,591,28841,2316],"class_list":["post-141800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-american-lover","tag-dating-website","tag-fraud","tag-obinna-ezenwa-egbueriaku","tag-romance-scam"],"yoast_head":"\n
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