Chibuzor Opara, an elder brother of the late Claret Opara-Bassey, a Calabar-based lawyer who reportedly died in a crash while chasing her husband who fled when she saw him with his alleged lover on Sunday, September 18 has opened up about the tragic incident.
According to him, the late Claret, the ninth out of 10 children was a lawyer practising in Calabar and married to her husband for more than 15 years with three children before her death.
In an interview with the Punch, Chibuzor disclosed that his sister was aware that her husband was cheating on her. “My sister knew that he was cheating. She did not actually tell me as a complaint but in passing, she mentioned that.
“The way she spoke about it showed that she knew that he sometimes engaged his female friends. My sister knew that her husband, from time to time, was cheating.
“I think it was two years ago that I heard her saying such but from what I have been reading on social media, it looks like she told her friends about her travails more than she did to me.
“Many men engage in extramarital affairs. It is quite common and it depends on how one sees life or their religious or social conviction. When a man cheats, a woman prays not to get entangled with what he is doing outside.
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“There was never a day the family sat to talk about what the man was doing. I never expected this (her death) to happen. A husband and a wife can disagree or even fight but after disagreeing, they make up.”
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He disclosed that the husband told the sister he was travelling before he was caught with the side chic.
On how the sister’s husband broke the news of her death, he said, “Her husband called my elder brother and my elder brother called to tell me about it. The husband did talk as if he knew how it (the crash) happened.
“He told my elder brother that she was involved in an accident. I even thought that she was driving and chatting because we have a family chat room when she made a comment about 6 pm or 7 pm. So, when I heard about the accident, my question was: was she chatting and driving at the same time, and perhaps, got involved in an accident?
“It was the following day that I saw the news on social media and people were making some nasty comments about what they thought they knew. I cannot tell you everything about their marriage because they have children and whatever you put out there, their children will see and it will affect them.”
He said he was sure that something must have triggerred his sister’s action but he does not want to talk about it. “Let me be plain to you. I cannot tell you everything I know because I know that his first son is on social media, so people should try to help them.
“I think so to an extent but I do not want to talk about their marriage until certain things get settled. I think something happened, something made her do that. It was not just because her husband was with another lady. No. I think there must have been something else because she knew that her husband was unfaithful to her.”
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