"The only crime I committed was trusting a man" - Nigerian woman narrates how her husband travelled to Lagos 3 weeks after their wedding and never returned


A Nigerian woman, Chinenye Anyanwu, has narrated how her newly wed bliss was cut short when her husband vanished into thin air three weeks after their court wedding in 2019.

Chinenye, who shared her story in a Facebook post on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, said that her runaway husband, who is suspected to be a scammer, made away with everything he could lay hands on.

According to her, Olumide left for Lagos on what was supposed to be a one week trip but never returned till date.

She said two weeks into the trip, she informed Olumide that she was pregnant but he wasn't thrilled about the idea of being a father.

Unknown to her, she was in for more shock. In what she described as the “biggest scam in history,” she said it turned out that Olumide's ‘family members who came to the wedding
weren't real."

She alleged that they were either ‘hired, tricked to attend or play roles at the wedding.’

“On 2nd August 2019, I walked into a marriage registry and exchanged marital vows with a man who legally became my husband after that exercise. Everything was fine.
Everyone was happy for

On 27th August, exactly this day 5 years ago.,Just 3 weeks after our marriage, he went ona trip to Lagos. His trip was supposed to be just one week but guess what, he hasn't
returned till date. What happened? So much.

2 weeks after he left I found out I was 2 weeks pregnant. The excitement, ohhhhhh.

But he didn't seem excited, why? I guess pregnancy wasn't part of his plans.

One month later, the biggest scam in history was discovered. You'll get to know that the only real people at my wedding were people from my side (people who came on my
account). Everyone that came for and on behalf of my husband were either hired, manipulated or tricked to attend or play roles at the wedding including his uncle and the
wife, the food vendor, photographer etc.

More shocks coming. All his family members I've spoken with while the relationship and marriage lasted nko? They were all part of hisvmission. Their numbers haven't gone through
till date. My husband made away with everything he could lay hands on. Obviously his reason for the marriage was to get access to them. Virtuous woman don't hide her money and assets from her husband right? Days turned to weeks, then to months. I accepted my reality, took responsibility for the mistakes that I made myself and determined to make things right for me and my then unborn child. Sounds like a movie scene right? Well, that's someone's reality but this is not the main point of this post. Here's the point.

My marriage lasted just 3 weeks but it's been 5 years of trying to fix the damages caused by that mistake. It's been 5 years of trying so hard to rebuild everything that was broken
down by reason of that marriage error; mental, spiritual, career, financial, emotional etc.

That one error affected practically everything, every other area of my life. Every now and then I ask myself "how did I let this happen under my watch?".

Everyone thinks you are strong and you are fine. But that's not the whole truth. Few days ago my son woke up and saw me and said "Mummy you are crying again".

It broke me but I couldn't help it. The last two months have been hell in my head, mind and body. I took stock of the past five years of my life and it seems God is punishing me for making one mistake.

All my efforts to fix things, get back to my normal life in all aspects hasn't yielded positive in my assessment. It's like I get to 70% progress then back to 20%. It's just not working. It's more like a shadow than it's real. It's luike I don't belong here anymore, like I am just fading away yet shining from the
outer. For just one mistake? Isn't this two much consequence?

I have seen people make countless marriage mistakes/errors yet get back to their normal.

Yet the holy book says God is not partial. I don't understand it anymore. It's not making any sense to me again. Make it make sense to me God!

The only crime I committed was trusting and committing to a man I didn't know but thought I knew and didn't take time to know.

I didn't keell anyone. I didn't break the law of the land so why am I in jail? Why is my punishment this long and harsh?

The worst is that you don't even have anyone to talk to because they don't seem to understand. To them you are a strong woman and everything is either fine or you can
handle everything.

Olumide, I have never cursed you in the past five years and for a reason I'll never do that. May the universe judge between you and I accordingly. Life indeed is not fair. Dear God,
I think it is enough. It is.

How can someone fall for a ROMANCE scam by a guy that looks like BURNT bole?

Just how?

Namaster:
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Oblitz:

Bossmen, i dey Hail o, thread never open, but you don book space. 👍

Both look old
I didnt bother to read that shiii after seeing their faces

So that guy wasted money on the wedding ceremony only to disappear to hades. He's mad. Well, maybe he was able to take more assets than he spent altogether

I'm sure he pretended to be rich so you fell for his gimmicks and gave him access to your passwords. Not judgemental but take heart, you not the first and def won't be the last.

She probably drove him with her incessant nagging with her mouth like bird own

Things dey happen o

Didn't you guys date?
Didn't you ask for his folks?
Was it a blind date?
No red flag?

That is why I can't blame some women in this life...what some useless men do can be crazy.

Very crazy.

That is wickedness.

I wonder if some people have conscience

All these ibo girls running after Yoruba diiks will learn...🤣🤣

Lol

Pple are really crazy

dkidd:
She probably drove him with her incessant nagging with her mouth like bird own

No brother, she doesn't have the looks. We know them Jezebels when we see one. This is pure scam on an innocent woman. The nigga didn't bail because of nagging or billing, she doesn't seem like she belong to that WhatsApp group of witches. I hope she gets the healing she needs. Some men no dey try at all. They no dey see golddigging karishikas to play games with, na innocent hardworking women.

Stop calling him your husband. He even arranged fake parents and all the attenders from the groom side are also arranging . Maybe he's even a ghost, who knows.

He acted rich to get her obviously.. Promised her heaven on earth to get all he wanted from her.. The guy go reap the seed he sow.. That’s if he still dey alive sef.. The wickedness was just too much..

Na wah o!
People too do oh..

Appeal to guys!

Please don't marry any woman you know you don't want to stay with irrespective of how they manipulate you to marry them.

I have heard guys saying, I will show her after wedding..... There is no need for that. Why going into the wedding in the first instance?

A guy caught the wife to be sleeping around few days to their wedding and he still went ahead because they begged him. After the wedding, he felt disconnected from the lady and the marriage is not working and the lady is busy defaming him all around.

The signs are always there if you open your eyes and sense and you did not allow what they carry front and back to becloud your reasoning.

Please, please and please, don't let these ladies turn the society against you. When you findout that the marriage will not work, even if you are about to say "I do", please stop and walk away. Your life will be much better than trying to fight back later.

Note: You can't win a pig in a mud fight.

My gender, not again. O wrong na

Nonexisting1:
No brother, she doesn't have the looks. We know them Jezebels when we see one. This is pure scam on an innocent woman. The nigga didn't bail because of nagging or billing, she doesn't seem like she belong to that WhatsApp group of witches. I hope she gets the healing she needs. Some men no dey try at all. They no dey see golddigging karishikas to play games with, na innocent hardworking women.

Lol that's funny though. Did U by any means see that woman fvcking another nigga all around her matrimonial home and the husband came back home to meet them at it while they were doing it on the couch he loves to stretch and relax after a stressful day? If U judge these 304's by looks U go lost 😂😂😂

Wickedness in the heart of humans knows no bounds.

Wow! Well, we're waiting for the runaway husband's side of the story

The man saw something.. Lately..

A man can't just waste his resources and abscond like that..

Meanwhile, do everything possible to avoid Igbo people, they're getting f-upped by the day...

Namaster:
How can someone fall for a ROMANCE scam by a guy that looks like BURNT bole?

Just how?

Sssssshhhhhh!

Umm

Lagos oh, that's like a country on its own with people from other regions needing to prove that they will return back home. This husband is showing the need for that. When Epa gives him Biabiafraud, he will need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he intends to return back to his wife and be responsible, before been allowed into Lagos his dream land.

When I was in secondary school my friend's dad went to work one day and never returned till today. The brand new BMW car he bought just two weeks before his disappearance is still gathering dust in the compound.
We later heard some rumors about him duping some dangerous people who kidnapped him and sent him to his ancestors

The guy looks strange to me. His eyes looks like it is laced with some native eye pencil.

Hhh