This is one of those perfect
story lines that we watch in movies. It is the shocking revelations trailing
the three years marriage of a popular TV gal, and actress turned producer of
Bold Faces-a celebrity oriented magazine programme that runs on DSTV and probably
other terrestrial stations, Tricia Esiegbe-Kerry.
Three years down the lane, after
her society wedding that drew notables from the Nollywood industry and also
football stars (at least Julius Aghahowa and Celestine Babayaro were there), Mrs.
Tricia Esiegbe-Kerry seems to have reasons to face the public and tell them how
well she knows the man she married in a colourful gathering of who`s who and in
a prestigious venue, Best Southern hotel, Lekki, Lagos sometime in the tail end
of 2009.
It is pertinent to know that, at
their wedding which had the award winning Nollywood director, Kingsley Omoefe
as best man in 2009, the bridegroom, Kingsley Kerry had threatened and warned
everybody most especially members of fourth estate of realm that should anybody
write any rubbish about him regarding his new contracted marriage, the fellow
would not just regret his/her life but sell family properties to pay damages
resulting from libel.
In his closing speech at the
wedding, Kerry having surveyed his guests round later turned his gaze at the
direction of the Nollywood personalities who were sandwiched with invited
members of fourth estate of realm and says thus,: I want to tell the press
that, if they ever think that they can use our wedding to sell their papers,
they`re in for a sucker punch, anybody that write rubbish about my wife and I
will go for it, you guys will pay and go to jail, I mean it, you guys will know
that, I am a true Edo born”, a quotation from his threats at the wedding three
years ago.
And as if that was not enough,
the chairman of the wedding that evening in person of Paul Obazele also has
this message to pass to the guests, “whoever
makes any attempt to rubbish the union in the papers will go to jail and
the families of the fellow would pay dearly for it”, Paul swore. Please read
the bromide and full text of our coverage on their wedding three years ago by
the right.
This office was fortunate to be
one of the few media that covered the society wedding and we were so amazed at
the level of caution and cold attitude displayed by the hosts to their guests
instead of showing appreciation for honouring the joyous occasion, all these,
put together were what gave us the premonition that, there`s more to the
marriage than meets the eyes because a clear conscience fears no accusation. We
however got the lead that eventually traced our path to what can best be
described as another husband snatching tales and a bigamy case.
The dateline was last Thursday,
June 28th, 2012 when this lazy reporter found his way to the
vicinity of Ikeja High Court and as fate will have it, we saw the very husband
of BOLD FACES producer, Tricia Esiegbe-Kerry
coming out of Court 34 in company of a lawyer with an agitating expression. It
was the mood that gave him out that, something is definitely amiss, and this
was what drove our interest as we began to dig to know why he was in court.
We couldn`t lay our hands on any
document on that day but we got it on good authority that it is a case of
divorce in which Mr. Kingsley Kerry (Tricia`s husband) is involved. Tried as we
could after spending some money without yielding any effort, we called to ask
if he has any divorce case in court because we saw him coming out of court 34
and were told the divorce case is his.
And this is his response, “I
don’t know what you`re talking about, I don’t have any case and I never gone to
any court, maybe not me, please cross check very well, it`s far from the
truth”, he told us.
We were however surprised when
our dependable source who had promised to get us the documents made available
an exclusive court papers which revealed that a Kingsley Agbroje has served one
Mrs. Obiageri Agbroje of Flat 12, ZAPOTECH House, Chilton Grove, Rotherhithe,
SE 8, 5 EG, London a divorce paper with Suit No.: ID/63HD/2011 to appear before
honourable Justice Y. A Adesanya of Court 34 on Thursday, June 28th,
2012.
This gave us a renewed hope and
vigour that we`re inching towards breaking another earth shaking story, and the
first approach was the initiative to speak to Tricia Esiegbe to see if she`s
aware of the divorce case, “Can you please address me properly, am not just Tricia
Esiegbe, I am Mrs. Tricia Esiegbe-Kerry, Kerry is my husband name and can I
call you back, am actually at STB Mccan to see the Client Service lady for a
deal regarding my programme, Bold Faces” , her response when we called her the
first time and when we eventually spoke and told her that it looks like her
husband is married in the UK with two kids, she denied that fact, “look,
there`s nothing like that, at least I know that, this can never move me, my
husband and I are always in the U.K and I`ve not encountered anything of such,
we travel together every time, do you know that, my mum and siblings live in
the UK, am just the only one here, in fact, my husband just came back from
Ghana where he`s gone to seal a deal, so nothing like that, I can go to sleep”,
she told us with full authority.
We asked her further if she knows
her husband as Kingsley C. Agbroje and also aware of one Mrs. Obiageri Agbroje whom
he`s likely to be married to in England before her and she told us CAPITAL NO,
his other name that I know is Onajite, he`s Kingsley Onajite Kerry and there`s
nothing like he`s married or he was married to anyone anywhere under this earth,
I am his only wife, and I hope you`re aware that we`re legally married, we did
our registry after that traditional you all came for in 2009. So get that into
your head, right! Look, remember you guys have done one story about me that I
didn’t like, if you make such mistake again, I won`t take it lightly, am dead
serious this time.
With this, we knew we have to be
very careful so as not to mislead our legion of readers thereby malign the
person of hardworking Mrs. Tricia Esiegbe-Kerry and her easy going husband,
Kingsley. At first, it looked like a dead end but the thought of the London
address Flat 12, ZAPOTECH House, Chilton Grove, Rotherhithe, SE 8, 5 EG, of the
respondent, Mrs. Obiageri Agbroje encouraged us to burrow the more.
The investigative adventure, even
though capital intensive saw us combing the city of London where we fortunately
met Susie who claimed to be a very close friend of Obiageri and told us she`s
not home and would not even want to talk to press about anything like that,
“yeah, what do you wanna know, am Stephanie`s friend, Obiageri is her native name
and she`s not around, Susie told us as she stepped out to start going to her
house.
We were however able to talk to
Susie who told us that, Kingsley`s full names are Kingsley Kerry Onajite
Agbroje and he knows me very well, he`s Stephainie`s (Obiageri) husband and she
has two kids for him, Michaela 9 and Jamie 6, a boy and a girl. And that`s not
all, do you know that another Jamaican girl, Alesha also had a set of lovely
twins for Kingsley, I think they`re like 3 years now, Tyrese and Tyrick, anyway
that itself is an episode on its own.
Tracing the genesis of their
liaison, we gathered reliably that, Obiageri who had always lived in England
met Kingsley in one of her holidays to Nigeria in 2001 through a family friend,
Chuks Mordi and no sooner they met than the cupid arrow arrested both of them
and they got married in 2002. When they were planning for the wedding, Obiageri
had to borrow fifteen thousand pounds sterling in England to foot the bills
when her fiancé could not take care of the wedding and we also gathered
Obiageri who hails from Mbano in Imo State was instrumental to Kingsley`s first
ever journey to England including his visa, ticket and accommodation till he
got his British Passport before he dumped her in 2009 to marry Tricia Esiegbe.
This office was so curious to
demand why the poor woman had kept mum all this while even after hearing that,
her husband and father of her two kids had contracted another marriage back
home in Nigeria and the reply we got was that, Kingsley had not been a good
husband either, even when they were living together in England, he was not
providing for the kids, he was always womanizing, at least he got a Jamaican
lady pregnant and disowned the twins she had for him, so shouting to the public
will be tantamount to looking for a cheap publicity, she has left her for God
and Laws of Kamal if there`s any but he was the one who triggered this by
coming to drag somebody who has been taking care of the kids singlehandedly for
years to court for a divorce, what for, it`s all bullshit, we gathered.
Further investigations on the
identity of Tricia Esiegbe`s husband revealed that, the man who hails from
Isoko tribe, Delta State worked at St. George`s Hospital, South West London for
a while. The divorce case has been adjourned to the 17th of June,
2012 and we learnt no lawyer represented Mrs. Obiageri Agbroje on the first day
and Kingsley`s counsel is working on fast tracking the divorce case and some of
his prayers is that, the court should dissolve the marriage on the grounds of
irreconcilable differences and that, they`ve lived apart for more than two
years.
We`ve however resolved to cover
the matter on the next adjourned date and planning to have an exclusive
interview with Mrs. Obiageri Agbroje in London sometime next week and we shall
also follow up on Kingsley and her Lagos wife, Tricia Esiegbe, maybe after
they`ve read the story for their own side since they didn`t know what we were
talking about when we got in touch with them the first time. Please keep a date
for the second part of the life of Kingsley Kerry in London and his deal with
the Jamaican lady, Alesha who bore him a set of lovely twins. Please get the print edition for more exclusive pictures and court documents.
Jite Usman.
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