Sister to Oyinye Faustina Eze, the Globacom staff who was killed by her “husband” Stephen Ogho-Oghene Akpata, at their home in Kpansia area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, has revealed the deceased was 3-months pregnant.
According to Clara Uche, who spoke with LIB, her sister met Stephen in February this year when he came for his Sim card registration at their office.
He asked the deceased out and she accepted. Everything was going on smooth until when he revealed his intention to marry her and asked her to move to Australia with him. Clara revealed Faustina was pressurised but refused to leave. This of course did not go down well with Stephen who felt she was going against his will.
“He had been disturbing my sister to resign from Globacom and I was like why is he bent on you resigning. I told my sister that when the visa is ready, then you can resign your work. He wanted her to resign so that he can corner all her money and the benefits she would get when she resigns.
Sometime this year, she told him to follow her to see her people in Enugu so they can start off their wedding plans. Apparently not ready to tie the knot with her, feigned his kidnap. He called her on the phone few days to the day they were supposed to meet her family and informed her that he had been kidnapped by his daughter and her husband. When that day passed, he surfaced and apologised to her.
Stephen had always dodged her call for him to Enugu to see her parents for their introduction.
Early August, Faustina called her elder sister informing her that her fiance, Stephen, said they would be going for their court wedding on August 8th. Her family did not attend as they felt it was too sudden. Her sister however went.
Stephen still refused to travel to Enugu to meet her parents and when Faustina talked to her sister, the sister advised she backed out of the relationship id she wasn’t certain about the man. Faustina also revealed to her sister that she was three months pregnant. Stephen also spoke to Faustina’s sister about the pregnancy.
On August 15th after Faustina returned to Yenagoa, she told Stephen that she would walk out of their marriage if he doesn’t follow her to do their introduction. When he asked about their child, Faustina lied she had terminated the pregnancy. Stephen hit her with an iron and, she collapsed and died.
“On the day she was murdered, her phone rang, she didn’t pick it. My elder brother also called but she didn’t pick. At a stage, the phone was switched off. The man’s own was also switched off. On Wednesday, August 16th we were all panicking. We contacted her office and they told her she wasn’t at work and that they were also worried. We now gave them the go ahead to go to the police so they can go and check the house. When they got there, they found my sister dead. I went to Bayelsa with my brother to take the body. My sister had been getting threatening messages from the daughter of the man”.