In a shocking tale of dating app deception, Mr. Obinna Ezenwa has come forward to share his harrowing experience of being scammed by an American woman he met online. This revelation follows the alleged efforts of the woman to intimidate and tarnish Obinna’s name and reputation.
He met Kymberly Stalvey Ann Shepard on a dating app in October 2018. After conversing for a while, Kymberly surprised him by revealing a flight ticket to Nigeria in November.
She arrived in Lagos on December 28, 2018, and the couple decided to purchase a car together to travel around cities and villages.
Ezenwa took Kymberly to his village in Imo State, where she met his family and friends.
The relationship progressed, and in January 2019, Ezenwa and Kymberly had a civil marriage in Owerri Municipal Council, surrounded by loved ones.
However, unbeknownst to him, Kymberly had previously been married to three other men, including a Nigerian, making Ezenwa her fourth husband.
After returning to the US in January 2019, Kymberly informed Ezenwa that she would be unable to file the necessary paperwork for him to join her, as she had already sponsored two people, and US immigration would not allow her to do so again. This revelation prevented Obinna from legally immigrating to the US as previously agreed with Kymberly.
Kymberly’s alleged deception did not end there. In mid-2019, she told Ezenwa that he would need to find alternative means to come to the US, as she could no longer sponsor him.
When pressed for an explanation, Kymberly shocked Ezenwa with the confession that her previous marriages, including one to a Nigerian man living in Georgia, were still legally valid when she married Ezenwa.
Despite the betrayal and manipulation, Ezenwa forgave Kymberly due to his genuine love for her. However, his attempts to obtain a US visa on his own were unsuccessful, leading to further conflict in the relationship, as Kymberly accused him of trying to abandon her.
With the unsuccessful attempts to secure a US visa, Kymberly became increasingly temperamental. She began stalking Ezenwa on social media, questioning his friends about him, and even creating fake accounts to tarnish his reputation.
In February 2020, Kymberly allegedly returned to Nigeria for a second visit, during which Ezenwa discovered she was communicating with another man, claiming he was her ex-husband.
Upon her return to the US, Kymberly’s behavior worsened, and she eventually blocked Ezenwa on all means of communication.
In February 2021, Kymberly enlisted the help of the anti-kidnapping squad in Owerri, Imo State, to have Ezenwa arrested through an acquaintance she met online. He spent three nights in police custody before being released, as the police were unable to substantiate any charges while his accusers abandoned the case and fled.
According to Ezenwa, Kymberly’s allegations of extortion against him were fabricated as retaliation.
He explained further: “I’m the victim in this matter. I took this woman to my village and introduced her to my parents, not knowing she was playing me for a fool. All she wanted was to exploit me sexually, which is clearly what she had done in her three previous marriages.
“She is 62 and was already an expert in coercing men into marriage and ‘importing’ them from foreign nations to the United States, where she seeks to dominate and enslave them for her own desires.
“Kymberly hid her previous marriages from me, but unfortunately for her, she could not file papers for me to join her as agreed, and my own efforts yielded no results either. That was when I learned she had already sponsored papers for other husbands and couldn’t file for me because she had reached the legal limit.
“Thinking she would lose me, the monster in her emerged, and she began saying and doing all sorts of things to malign and intimidate me. Joining her in America could have worked out over time, but she was so desperate that she was willing to destroy the marriage, my reputation, and everything else because things did not go her way.”
Obinna later moved to the UK to pursue his MSc, but in January 2022, Kymberly allegedly made a defamatory publication against him in a Nigerian national daily. This prompted Obinna and his lawyers to file a defamation lawsuit against her and the newspaper, which is still ongoing.
The estranged couple is also embroiled in a divorce case, with court processes served on Kymberly since February 2022.
In a desperate effort to discredit Obinna, Kymberly and her allies petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), making wild allegations and claims rife with falsehoods against him.
“Without any form of due diligence; without prior invitation or efforts to hear from me, the EFCC, in April 2024, declared me wanted based on these false claims.”
