10th February, 2023
By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
More details of how a trans woman and member of St. John’s Catholic Church, Rumuolumeni in Iwofe area of Port Harcourt, Emmanuella Adaobi, whose real name was revealed to be Emmanuel Oliseh Ogaebulam, after her death in a tricycle (keke) accident have emerged.
The identity of the trans woman who was lead soprano singer in the Catholic Church was revealed after her death in a tricycle accident in Port Harcourt last month.
According to reports, a mortuary attendant who examined her corpse at the morgue of the hospital she was taken to had after examining her, alerted church members that she was a male.
It was also discovered that she was wearing four male underwear and fake boobs to disguise her looks.
Peter Okon, the tricycle rider involved in the accident that led to the death of the trans woman has been in police custody since the incident happened.
However, lawyer to Okon, Nyeche Amah, spoke to journalists in Port Harcourt on how the trans woman died in the keke accident, while denying his client was involved in her death as being speculated.
But the lawyer said his client who is still in police custody did not hit and kill the transgender chorister as being speculated.
Mr Amah said “I feel very disappointed with the information making the rounds that my client (Mr Peter Okon) hit the transgender person. The name of the transgender is actually Emmanuel Oliseh Ogaebulam from Anambra State.
“What actually happened is that the transgender was a passenger to the Keke driver, he was in the same tricycle with the driver. While the Keke driver was driving, there was a little girl with wheelbarrow trying to cross the road.
“In an attempt for my client to avoid running into the little girl carrying the wheelbarrow and crossing the road, he has to swerve and on attempt to swerve, unconsciously the transgender person fell out from the vehicle and fell into the drainage.
“It would also interest you to know that the female transgender was not the only one the driver was carrying. Unfortunately, the transgender was the only person who sustained injuries that later died. My client is hale and hearty and is in Police protective custody.
“Mr Okon did all he could to protect everybody in the tricycle, but unfortunately the transgender made an attempt to jump out and fell into the drainage.
“The Keke driver displayed highest level of maturity by reporting himself to the Rumulomeni Police Station at Iwofe when the incident occurred around Akar junction, Iwofe on night of January 31st,2023.
“The Keke driver is not actually detained but kept in protective custody so that the driver does not get hurt by persons sympathetic to the transgender who may not have known what transpired.”
Recall that the transgender who goes by the name Emmanuella Adaobi whose real name was later revealed as Emmanuel Oliseh was a female transgender Chorister of a Catholic Church at St.John Iwofe who is in a process of getting married to a man in the church before his death.
Also, a man captured in a viral picture with the transgender who was in traditional attire speculated to be the man who wedded the transgender has denied wedding the Transgender.
The man who is a Port Harcourt based lawyer told our reporter that he went for Traditional marriage somewhere when a female who turned out to be a transgender begged to snap with him and it was almost normal that he accepts snapping with the female who later turned out to be a transgender.