TUSSLE OVER PROPERTY: BATTERED WIFE SUES FORMER SUPER EAGLES’
PLAYER, GODWIN OKPARA
IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – Former Nigerian central defender,
Godwin Okpara is in the news again. This time, he has been dragged to court by
his wife Lynda Oladoyinbo
Okpara over ownership of property, which she said was
acquired when the going was good with the family.
Campbell said the husband is currently denying her of the
privilege of getting her share of properties and has dragged him before an
Ikeja Magistrate Court court seeking justice for herself and her three living
children.
www.starconnectmedia.com that she separated with the husband
when she caught him sleeping with (Tina Okpara) the girl she adopted but whose
real names are Awawu Simoni. “Her father worked with one of my uncles. When
they fired him, I adopted her daughter and that was also when her mother died.
There was nobody taking care of her and she had developed kwashiorkor and I
decided to take her in.
“I finally caught Tina with my husband on my bed, my husband
held me and she was able to run outside the house. I am okay with him dating
girls outside, but not inside my matrimonial home. It was when I was arrested
that I opened up. So I know that the girl had hepatitis B, because I did test
before adopting the girl”, she told our reporter.
She got married to Godwin Okpara in December 31, 1992 and had
four children together, Stephanie, 25, Shawn 22(now late), Sharon 18 and Sidney
17, all based in France.
Godwin Okpara had a good time playing then for the Super
Eagles and the club side, PSG in France but issue of persistent wife battery
and child trafficking soon led him out of football into jail.
He is now back home in Nigeria but he is allegedly
withholding share of the property from his wife.
She also said the children; three of them in France have been
abandoned by Godwin Opara. She practically wept reading the test of her
children just asking her to send stipend to feed.
Besides, she said she was humiliated by her husband who hired
thugs to assault her and even stripped her Unclad in her compound before
onlookers. For this, she said it will be difficult for her to forgive Godwin
Okpara whom she loves so much.




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