A female chorister at a popular church in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has been discovered to be a man.
According to BBC Pidgin, Emmanuella Adaolisa, a singer at St. John’s Catholic Church in Iwofe, Port Harcourt was discovered to be a trans woman after death.
Reports say that Adaolisa’s identity was revealed after she died in a Keke accident.
Church members claim they had no knowledge that Emmanuella was a man until mortuary attendants made the discovery.
However, the word ‘Trans’ is seen on Emmanuella Adaolisa’s Facebook profile.
Chukwuka Gabriel Eseh shared the story on Facebook. He wrote;
“What our clime has turned into.. A certain Emmanuel Nwaolisa. A Pharmacist who graduated from UNIPORT. (Emmanuella Adaolisa as facebook name.) Until the unthinkable happened on the 31st January 2023. Nobody knew he was a transgender.
This person started worshiping at St. John’s Catholic Church, Iwofe Road Portharcourt within November 2022.
All along, she was putting on engagement ring, wearing all manner of female makeups, female clothing et’ al. She joined Choirs, climbing Alter at will…….
She had told people around her in the church that she’s from Ondo, she’s done her traditional marriage, that she’s now on her wedding classes at St. Johns Catholic Church. On that note, parishioners were going along well with her.
“On that fateful 31st of January, after evening Programme in the church, on her way home, she met her Waterloo.
She was was seen in a tricycle (Keke) inside a gutter, bleeding all around her face.
After been there for a while with little or know rescue, the info got to the church choir members who went there to confirm the story to be true.
“There and then, she was taken to a military hospital around Rumuola PH. On getting there, she was confirmed dead on arrival (DOA).
“Furthermore, she was to be dressed by the mortuary attendants, it was there they discovered that she was a he……
“The mortuary attendants then called on the church choir master to interview him on the gender they deposited with them, the choir master responded that it was a female.
But when he and his team was lead to really confirm their position, low and behold…. The choir team were bewildered by what they saw that they have been dealing with a man but not a women as she claimed. Many other stories about him started surfacing from people that knew him before. Please my people, let’s be vigilant at all times.”
Mourning Emmanuella Adaolisa on Facebook, David Nwanneka Annastesia wrote;
“Rip!!! to a transgender
From itz Emmanuel Nwaolisa to Emmanuella Adaolisa.
A Pharmacist and a dancer
“He was my coach as a luturgical dancer
He taught me liturgical dance at our lady of Fatima catholic church choba owhipa portharcourt.
“He/she in the picture has died in a keke accident in rumuolumini Portharcourt after completing a 21 days prayer and fasting as a chorister in his parish st.John’s Catholic Church Rumuolumini after the priest at the end of the fast declared that anyone who is about to disgrace this church will die shamelessly.
“He lost his life on his way home and on depositing his corpse in the mortuary by the parish catechist discovered he is He not She as he presented himself/herself to the parish and his fiancé is still denying he never knew she was a he.”
Emmanuella has won a number of pageants as a female.
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