Osatawaji Otuene, elder brother of a 300-level undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt, River State, Justina Otuene, who was allegedly killed by a 400-level Petrochemical Engineering student of the university, Damian Okoligwe,, has debunked claims that the slain student was dating her killer for money.
Osatawaji told PUNCH in an interview that his sister was wrongly being portrayed on social media, as a girl who was lured to her death with money. He revealed that the deceased had broken up with her killer, wondering how she ended up in his place.
The late student’s sibling also disclosed that his family was initially called by people who said they had kidnapped his sister and they threatened to kill her because her family had reported her disappearance to the police.
He said : “They dated but they broke up a long time ago. Before this incident, she was not his girlfriend. They dated, I think, two years ago, in 2021. That was a very long time and they didn’t contact each other after they broke up till, I believe, in 2023. If they had had any contact before then I would have known. Even if she hid it from me,
” I know that they didn’t have contact because I spoke to my sister’s best friend who gave me information that the guy who killed my sister texted her in June 2023. Though she didn’t give me the precise date, that guy texted her and asked for my sister’s phone number. That was the Information I received. They didn’t have anything together for a long time.
“I’m not happy with everything that is being said in the media because if she was in a relationship for the money she wouldn’t have broken up (with him) in the first place and mind you, they broke up in 2021. The murderer got my sister’s phone number from her best friend in June 2023”.
Osatawaji went further to say that his sister’s killer lied about the circumstances leading to her death and his motive during his parade in Port-Harcourt by the Rivers State commissioner of police.
He said: “They dated but they broke up a long time ago. Before this incident, she was not his girlfriend. They dated, I think, two years ago, in 2021. That was a very long time and they didn’t contact each other after they broke up till, I believe, in 2023.
” If they had had any contact before then I would have known. Even if she hid it from me, I know that they didn’t have contact because I spoke to my sister’s best friend who gave me information that the guy who killed my sister texted her in June 2023. Though she didn’t give me the precise date, that guy texted her and asked for my sister’s phone number. That was the Information I received. They didn’t have anything together for a long time.
I’m not happy with everything that is being said in the media because if she was in a relationship for the money she wouldn’t have broken up (with him) in the first place and mind you, they broke up in 2021. The murderer got my sister’s phone number from her best friend in June 2023.
“The truth is that she dated him two years ago and she didn’t have anything to do with him after then. So, the narrative that is going around that she was dating a Yahoo Yahoo boy and liked a flashy lifestyle is wrong”.
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