An American woman has allegedly tricked one Mr. Obinna Ezenwa, a Nigerian into marrying her without knowing she was already married to three men but his lover has petitioned him to an anti-graft agency for alleged financial scam.
The Nigerian reportedly met Kymberly Stalvey Ann Shepard on a dating app in October 2018 where they agreed to settle down.
Kymberly notified him of her intention to visit Nigeria and she arrived in Lagos on December 28, 2018. The lovers did their court marriage in Owerri Municipal Council in January 2019.
After returning to the US in January 2019, Kymberly allegedly informed Ezenwa that she would not be able to file the necessary paperwork for him to join her, as she had already sponsored two people and the US immigration would not allow her to do so again.
In the middle of 2019, Ezenwa found out that his American lover was still legally married to some men including a Nigerian man living in Georgia.
When she returned in 2020, the Nigerian said she was in touch with a man she claimed to be her ex-husband. Ezenwa added that she blocked all forms of communication with him when returned to her country.
But the romance turned soar leading to Kymberly using anti-kidnapping squad in Owerri, Imo State to arrest her husband, Ezenwa.
He narrated, “I’m the victim in this matter. A woman I took to my village and to my parents, but didn’t know she was playing me for a fool. All she wanted was to sexually exploit me, which is clearly what she had been doing in the three previous marriages she had.
“She is 62 and was already an expert in coercing men into marriage and ‘importing’ them from foreign nations to the United States where she seeks to call the shots and enslave the men for her sexual satisfaction.
“Kymberly hid her previous marriages from me, but unfortunately for her, she could not file papers for me to join her as agreed and my own efforts yielded no result too. That was when I learnt that she had filed papers previously for other husbands and couldn’t file for me because she had reached the lawful limit.
“Thinking she would lose me, that was when the monster in her emerged and she began to say and do all manner of things to malign and intimidate me. Joining her in America is something that could have worked out with time, but she was so desperate that she was willing to destroy the marriage, my name and everything because things did not go her way.”
Obinna later moved to the UK to pursue his Masters degree, but in January 2022 Kymberly allegedly made a defamatory publication against him in a Nigerian national daily.
In response, Obinna filed a defamation lawsuit against her. They have also been battling a divorce case since February 2022.
She also petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the matter.
Ezenwo said, “Without any form of due diligence; without prior invitation or efforts to hear from me, the EFCC on April 2024, declared me wanted on the basis of the false claims and allegations leveled against me by Kymberly and her proxies in Nigeria, an action I consider defamatory and malicious, for which I have since filed a suit, seeking redress against the EFCC in court.
“The petitioner has my number and my email and must have made it available to the commission. These same people were calling my lawyer and still could not drop an invite for me through my lawyer or call me directly before declaring me wanted.”
However, efforts made by our reporter to get the EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale to comment on the issue were not successful as he promised to get back to our correspondent over the issue. Two days after, he had yet to respond despite series of reminders sent to him.