BamBam Denies Claims Against Assistant, Speaks on Phone Theft at Alexx Ekubo Tribute

Actress BamBam has dismissed allegations that her personal assistant stole her phone during the service of songs organised for the late Nollywood actor Alexx Ekubo, insisting the device went missing after the event and that her aide was wrongly accused.

The controversy followed the circulation of a video online showing a woman removing a phone from BamBam’s bag during the memorial programme, sparking speculation about her assistant’s involvement.

Responding to the claims in an Instagram video, the reality TV star explained that the woman in the footage was merely helping her carry her belongings because of the crowd at the venue.

She said she only discovered her phone was missing after she had left the hall and entered her vehicle.

“I actually thought when she took my bag and the paper with me that my phone was with her. We got into the car and I was like, ‘Where is my phone?’ She said, ‘It’s not with me.’ We ransacked my bag; it wasn’t there,” BamBam recounted.

According to her, evidence that the phone was still in her possession during the programme could be seen in the social media updates she posted from inside the hall.

“I even made some story posts of some of the ministers that were performing. Pastor Jerry Eze said some powerful things that I posted on my story, so I still had my phone in the hall. It was after that the phone was taken,” she said.

BamBam revealed that her greatest concern was the loss of important contacts, videos and photographs that had not yet been backed up.

“First thing that hit me was compassion. I was sad first. I was really sad that my contacts, my videos, everything was there. I had not even updated my iCloud and a lot of my pictures were not backed up,” she stated.

She further lamented that a memorial service could become the scene of multiple thefts.

“What would make any human being consider a service of songs a place to rob? It wasn’t just my phone that was stolen. One of Alex’s brothers lost his phone, another guy lost his too and a few of us were looking for our phones that night,” she said.

The development comes amid reports that several phones were stolen during the event. Actress Susan Peters disclosed that her iPhone 16 Pro Max also went missing, while actor Stan Nze revealed that more than five phones were reportedly stolen during the service of songs held in memory of Ekubo, who died on May 11 after battling kidney cancer.

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