Alleged Missing Woman’s Ex-husband Speaks Out, Debunks Death Rumour

The 40 year old Charity was declared missing by her friends on May 10 this year.

But David Aiyedogbon, who spoke to journalists in Abuja on Monday, said Charity had left his house since 2014 without a divorce,nearly two years before she was declared missing, abandoning their four grown up children to him.

He said effort to locate her whereabouts and bring her back home proved abortive even though he regularly gets reports that she was seen in different rendezvous in Abuja, especially at night.

Since her disappearance from his home, Charity had tried unsuccessfully to extort money and property from him by writing false petitions against him to the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission,ICPC

In one of the petitions investigated by the anti-graft agency, Charity alleged that he owned some bank accounts where he lodged stolen government money and laundered some of the stolen funds by buying properties in Abuja and the United Kingdom..

But after ICPC investigators found no evidence of the alleged money laundery and dismissed the petition, Charity allegedly made overtures to her enstranged husband to give her some of his properties and a sum of N150 million as pay off for her to drop charges against him-a move he snobbed.

Speaking about the allegation that she was missing, Aiyedogbon said neither him nor any member of Charity’s family was aware that she was missing, stressing that she was declared missing on facebook by one of her friends, an act he said may be a ploy to achieve a pre-meditated end by Charity and her friends.

“They want money and property from me, that’s why they’re doing all these. She has gone to ICPC and failed. She went to court and failed and now she and her friends are making other plots to get what they want,” Aiyedogbon said.

An investigator who worked with the police on the case confirmed Aiyedogbon’s claims and said days and weeks after Charity was declared missing, a forensic examination of her phone revealed that she was still making and receiving calls-confirming that she may have gone into hiding deliberately.

The investigator also confirmed that her phone was used by some men who may be her boy friends and who may be helping her in the plot.

Aiyedogbon said he had petition the Inspector General of Police on the antics of his former wife and her numerous boyfrineds, and asked for protection for himself and their four children.

Following the petition, seven people have been arrested in connection with her disappearance including one Nsikak Udoh, her lawyer suspected to be part of the plot.

Aiyedogbon also debunked claims by the US based lawyer that Charity had been killed. He said if Charity was dead and he was able to find her corpse, why has he not reported to the police to that an autopsy could be done on the corpse?

Charity got married in 1988 at the age of 16, and has been separated from her husband, David, for about two years, while her children live with their father.