OJB’s 1st Wife, Mabel Okungbowa Cries Out After Family Accused Her Of Stealing Late Husband’s House Documents
The family of late Nigerian singer-songwriter and record producer who died on June 14, 2016; -few weeks to his 50th birthday- from complications of kidney disease, Babatunde Okungbowa popularly known as OJB Jezreel , are still at war with one of his widows, Mabel Okungbowa.
Recall that shortly after the demise of the dad-of-8, his family members ‘went’ to war with his first wife over his properties. Read here and here.
OJB battled with Kidney problems and he was consequently flown to India for a transplant in 2013; his first wife, same Mabel Okungbowa was said to have donated one of her kidneys to save the life of her husband. (Read Here)
Unfortunately, 3-years later and a week to his death, the kidney failed again.
He was survived by his 3 wives: Mabel with whom he had 3 children, June with whom he also had 3 children and Korede with whom he had 2 children.
The deceased’s property located on Gbaja street, Surulere, Lagos; has been causing a lot of ripples since his demise. OJB’s aged father, Pa Anthony Okungbowa wants his son’s 1st wife, Mabel to vacate the house with her kids, while OJB’s brothers are likewise accusing their brother’s widow of ‘stealing’ his house documents and ‘ fraudulent conversion of same.’
Narrating her ordeal to LIB, Mabel said:
“This house issue has been causing problems since OJB died. His family keeps accusing me of stealing the documents despite the fact that they all know the documents are with his lawyers. They’ve dragged me to court and used Police to arrest me several times. Its really tiring.
Sometime in June this year, they told the court they wanted to settle the case out of court and we agreed with a mediator only for them to have me arrested again on July 11th. I was taken to Lion Building and accused of stealing and fraudulent conversion of the house. We settled that one and after some time, police from Zone Two came to pick me up again over this same issue, they just went to deposit me at the barracks still claiming that I stole the documents.
Now, I’ve been able to get a restraining order from the court against them (OJB’s father, his brothers and the police) and we have the next hearing of the case coming up on November 22nd.”
How much pain can a widow go through before she loses it!
CREDIT: LIB