Following up on the story posted earlier today detailing the tragic death of Chuks Okebata, here is a message from his widow.
US-based Chuks was assassinated after being abducted by unknown assailants. The deceased from Mbieri in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo state was in the country to celebrate the Christmas season.
The Commissioner of Police in Imo, Taiwo Lakanu, has assured the residents and the state government that the murderers will be arrested soon.
While investigations are ongoing, the deceased’s sisters drew online attention to the case by sharing videos of previous altercations between him and his wife.
On the other side, screenshots of online comments by the deceased speaking badly of his wife and partying with other women have also been published.
Wife of murdered US army veteran Chuks Okebata who was killed by alleged assassins in Imo state has shared her own side of the story saying she didn't kill her husband.
This is coming after her sister in law shared videos of her threatening to get her husband jailed. She shared her story with blogger Amanda Chisom:
My own side of the story
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Amanda , I once came to you about my husband and his incessant abuse and cheating. Yes I am the wife of the man who was assassinated, and I am just distraught. I do not even know where to start but it is only right I tell my own side of the story. I am innocent, God is my witness that I did not kill my husband or the evil that my husband’s family is portraying me to be, yes my sister in-law posted that video to make me look evil but the part she did not tell anybody was that I was calling the police to save me because he always beat me up and I was told to call the police whenever he started and that was exactly what I was doing, from the video you would see that I did not fight him or answered him. Should I have allowed him to kill me? Amanda, we have been married for 13 years since I was 19, it has been beating upon beating, I have gone through surgeries because of beating he gave me. How can I kill my husband, we live together, till the day he left for Nigeria, I packed his things , how could I kill him. Who do I know to order a hit on the father of my children? I have no interest in his properties as suggested after all we built every thing together. God knows I am innocent. I know who I am married to, he is a show off and he went to Nigeria and was going to club spraying dollars and showing off, revealing his locations . They want to pin my husband’s death on me, my husband was not assassinated. He was kidnapped, because he is a military man he is always with a gun and when he shot to death one of the kidnappers,they shot him. Why is my family leaving out information about what happened and pinning it on me? I never threatened him to kill him, I am a working woman with a paying job and have no reason to kill him because of properties . All I just want is peace to mourn and raise my children. You can confirm my story from those people in my home town. My husband was careless in a country with high rate of crime and was kidnapped, if he had not shot one of the robbers all we would have been talking about is paying ransom not death. Amanda why would I kill the father of my kids, why would I choose his death over a divorce if things were that bad. I have two boys, who will help me raise them? I am completely innocent of all the allegations. I have endured all this years through his beating and cheating and I did not leave or kill him, why would I do it now? All I ask is that I am left to mourn in peace and the killers found and prosecuted. See pictures of my husband spraying dollars at the club in Owerri.He even live streamed it showing his exact location Nne biko help me I’m an innocent victim here I love my husband and I’m still in tears I’m mourning him and people are accusing them wrongly. My children are crying daily.
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Posted: at 17-01-2017 07:48 PM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
i am so confuse on this issue bcos d woman have said her own side of the story but why d soldier husband go to club in nigeria to start to spree dollars when you know where you came from, i thought as a U.S army discipline is suppose to be your watchword. well, r.i.p.
Posted: at 17-01-2017 08:19 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
edithehio at 17-01-2017 08:42 PM (7 years ago) (f)
Rest in peace to the dead,according to what I see on that video..the man was playing the role of a victim.he was trying to give that lady bad name before d kids. .he knows exactly what he was doing,it was unfortunate he was killed just after he made that video...he was looking for an excuse something to show his family back home. .sorry for him.
Posted: at 17-01-2017 08:42 PM (7 years ago) | Upcoming
Afriqueenn at 17-01-2017 09:07 PM (7 years ago) (f)
Very arrogant ibo woman! (my apologies to the respectful ibo women out there) I watched the video and from what I could deduce, she was a nagging bitch of a woman!! - Just because the laws in the western world support the female folks most of the time. Why didn't she divorce him instead of not submitting and making life unbearable for him? If you're not enjoying your marriage or your partner beats you or cheats on you, you head to the court to annul it, rather than strutting around and lording it over your man. RIP Chuks. This will serve as a lesson to men in Europe and the Americas, especially the ibo folks. You date a lady for several years and know a lot about her, but when it's time to get married, she's suddenly not "wife material" enough because she presumably came to Europe and the Americas as a "prostitute," instead, you ask your family to get you a home grown girl, who you or they hardly know, or go for your childhood sweetheart who could have changed in the course of the years. Now if that lady who just " tear eyes" and doesn’t know how to control "torn eyes" start tormenting you, who do you blame? Yourself, of course. History is replete with stories such as this.
Posted: at 17-01-2017 09:07 PM (7 years ago) | Upcoming
steveoneal at 18-01-2017 12:23 AM (7 years ago) (m)
Quote from: Afriqueenn on 17-01-2017 09:07 PM
Very arrogant ibo woman! (my apologies to the respectful ibo women out there) I watched the video and from what I could deduce, she was a nagging bitch of a woman!! - Just because the laws in the western world support the female folks most of the time. Why didn't she divorce him instead of not submitting and making life unbearable for him? If you're not enjoying your marriage or your partner beats you or cheats on you, you head to the court to annul it, rather than strutting around and lording it over your man. RIP Chuks. This will serve as a lesson to men in Europe and the Americas, especially the ibo folks. You date a lady for several years and know a lot about her, but when it's time to get married, she's suddenly not "wife material" enough because she presumably came to Europe and the Americas as a "prostitute," instead, you ask your family to get you a home grown girl, who you or they hardly know, or go for your childhood sweetheart who could have changed in the course of the years. Now if that lady who just " tear eyes" and doesn’t know how to control "torn eyes" start tormenting you, who do you blame? Yourself, of course. History is replete with stories such as this.
God bless you.
Posted: at 18-01-2017 12:23 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
I ve watched the video I dont think that the wife has a hand in his death.
Look folks, sometimes let your woman express her anger.
All woman naggs if you understand them, you've won.
I get from my wife more than what i saw on that video. At the end i, will go and huge her and say to her honey it is okay and she will huge me back and calm down. Yes life goes on sweet.
Posted: at 18-01-2017 01:08 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac