A Delta State High Court judge, Justice Anthony Ezonfade Okorodas has raised alarm having recently discovered that he’s not the biological father of the three children he had with his first wife, Celia Juliet Ototo.
In a statement, Okorodas said he made the discovery after he conducted DNA tests on all three children he had with his wife he had divorced 11 years ago.
He said he conducted a DNA test on the last child, a 17-year-old boy, last year after receiving a tip off from an anonymous source during the COVID-19 lockdown in April 2020 that one of the children wasn’t his.
He then confronted his first wife, whom he said hesitantly admitted to having an affair with another man while they were married, prompting him to conduct DNA tests on the other two children he had with her.
The results also proved that the two other children who are university undergraduates are also not his biological children, a situation he says has caused him ‘excruciating mental trauma’.
Okorodas, who described the discovery as devastating, noted that he has been taking care of the children with his current wife, Ebi, since he divorced Ototo over a decade ago, and that the recent development will not change his attitude towards them.
“Ebi and I would continue to support the children in any way that we can. Indeed, even after the release of the first DNA test result which proved that I was not the biological father of the last child, we have continued to pay for his education in a private boarding school.
“The two other children are University undergraduates.
“The first, a female, will be a graduate later this year, and the second will soon enter his 4th year of study. We pray for them to overcome the trauma and become responsible citizens of our country.”
He also revealed that DNA tests on all his other four children with his current wife proved that they belong to him.
