Mr. Stephen Monye, a civil servant attached to a federal government parastatal has accused one legal practitioner based in Owerri, Imo State capital, Chinedu Agu of having illicit affair with his wife, (name withheld) leading to impregnating and causing her to abort the pregnancy.
According to Democracy Newsline, Monye said he had before the incident embraced and welcomed Agu as a friend to his family due to the fact that his wife shared office space with him, not knowing that the said Agu was having romantic affair with his wife until he caught them by stumbling into what he described as scandalous WhatsApp chats between him (Agu) and his wife.
In a suit filled at the High Court of Imo State, Mgbidi Judicial Division, with suit No. HoU/ID/2024 and certified by Barr. O. O. Ndubuisi, dated 16th, October, 2026, Monye, who is a cross petitioner to the suit, also alleged that the said Agu unduly influenced his wife to abandon their marriage.
He stated that when he tried to raised his concerns over Agu’s unholy relationship with his wife through legal fora, the said Agu advanced several threats to his life and subsequently arrested him with Tiger Base officers. But after proper investigation, the police release him and cautioned Agu for instigating his arrest without evidence to back his claims.
Monye alleged that his wife had on several occasions, even in her written disposition in her early petition she filled in Suit No. MHE/16D/2023 admitted to having an illicit affair with Chinedu Agu, adding that he has other evidences to nail Agu for allegedly destroying his marriage and family.
The aggrieved man, through his lawyer, Richard Ibe, in the suit, therefore asked the court to award him the sun of Five Hundred Million Naira as general damages against Barr. Agu for allegedly committing adultery with his wife, which he insisted led to the breakdown of his marriage.
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👉 JOIN GISTSMATE WHATSAPP CHANNELHe also requested Five Million cost of litigation against Agu and a 25 percent interest every month in relief of the initial demanded money until judgement sum is liquidated.
Monye, also pray the court for a decree of dissolution of his marriage with his wife, and an order granting him the custody of his three children; alleging that his wife lacks morality to care, protect and train their children, if they are continually left under her care.
He further disclosed that since the incident with his wife, he has constantly lived in fear for his life given the threats from Agu; suffered several emotional crisis cum traumatic experiences; and has also been very skeptical of the paternity of the children of their marriage.
When our reporter contacted Monye, he declined to comment on the matter stressing that since the matter is already in court, responding would amount to contempt. He however vowed to explore every legal avenue to get justice over the matter.
Source: Democracy Newsline
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