Okpara To Be Released From Jail Next Year
Jailed ex-Super Eagles star Godwin Okpara will now breathe the air of freedom next September after he insisted on not being deported on his release.
In February 2008, the Nigeria World Cup defender, along with his wife, was imprisoned for sexually abusing a minor in France.
MTNFootball.com has learnt that Okpara would have by now been released from a French jail if he had agreed to the condition that he would be deported from France immediately he is set free.
"Okpara has maintained that he wants to live in France when he is out of prison and that was why the earlier arrangement to free him in August was shelved," a source close to the player disclosed.
"His argument is that he has lived most of his adult life in Europe and all his four children were born there and as such he would rather live there than back in Nigeria."
Okpara was jailed for 10 years in 2008 for sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl under his care.
