*Wife: I’m not having extra marital affair, but I
live in fear
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| Esonwune |
Esonwune, also accused his wife, Hope, of indulging
in illicit love affair with the police officer simply identified as Supol
Abiola.
He further said that his wife and the policeman are
colleagues. He said that the relationship was baffling because Abiola was also
a married man. He alleged that Abiola has vowed to kill him because he wanted
his wife back.
The man said that the affair between his wife and
the Supol Abiola, led to his wife moving out of their matrimonial home with
their children.
Making attempts to get his wife back, Esonwune petitioned
the Imo State Commissioner of Police, National Human Right Commissions, Human
right activists, lawyers and media, narrating how his marriage was destroyed.
He blamed Abiola for his broken marriage.
He said: “ I have caught my wife and Abiola driving
out together from Rockview Hotel in Owerri. I was able to have access to about
26 love text messages, exchanged between them. This Abiola used to come to my house
in my absence to see my wife. He also used to bring her home. He drops her
close to our home. He has ruined my marriage! I married my wife on October 24,
2002; we did the church wedding on
December, 14, 2002 at St Paul’s Catholic Church, Owerri. I have seen them going
to hotels together. One day, I was waiting for customers on the road because I’m
a tricycle operator, when I saw them driving out of Rockview Hotel.”
He noted that when Hope got home from office that
day, he confronted her, but she vehemently denied it. He would later lay his hands on her phone and
went through her text messages.
According to him, the height of the marital crisis was
when his wife, on December, 24, 2016, without thinking twice, packed her
belongings and moved out of their matrimonial home, taking their three children.
He disclosed that he had expected a better treatment
from Hope, especially since he sponsored her through secondary school and Police
College.
In the petition dated February, 10, 2017, Esonwune said
Abiola was now threatening to kill him after destroying his marriage.
The petition reads in part: “I’m constrained to draw
your attention to the calculated plot by one of your officers, Supol Abiola, of
Imo State Police Command, to destroy my family by going into illicit affairs
with my wife. My wife is equally a policewoman in your command. The peace in my
home was shattered when the devil struck, using Abiola as his agent. He is
having a love affair with my wife. He takes her to different fast food joints,
hotels, guest houses and other places.”
Esonwune said it got to an extent that his wife and
Abiola started using his bedroom for sex romps, whenever they noticed he was
not around. He alleged that Abiola also influenced his wife’s transfer from the
Police Officers Mess to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of Imo
State Police Command, in order to have easier access to her.
Esonwune said: “I have, on several occasions,
confronted them on the road, while they are in Police Hilux van, which they
used to cruise around town. Sometimes, they drive along with my children;
without shame. It’s very unfortunate that Abiola, as a married man has
intentionally undertaken to destroy my young family by sleeping with my wife,
whom I laboured to train at both secondary school and Enugu State Police
College. As I write this petition, my life is in danger as I no longer feel
safe in my house.”
Esonwune said he
has taken all these steps just to enforce his right as a husband and
father to his children.
Hope, almost weeping, said Esonwune was bent on
destroying her reputation. She said she has been through hell in the hands of Esonwune.
According to her, she is a victim of perpetual
domestic violence. She said that Esonwune used to beat her black and blue.
She said she has made several entries at welfare
over his battering, which anyone could go and investigate. She also noted that
because of Esonwune, she was so much in debt, to the extent that she doesn’t have
any money in her bank account.
She denied indulging in any affair with Abiola. She
explained that she had to move out of her matrimonial home because she wasn’t
ready to die.
She further explained that the traumatic union
became unbearable after someone lied to Esonwune that she was having an extra-marital
affair.
She said that without bothering to hear her own side
of the story, her husband bought the story, hook, line and sinker. He,
thereafter, increased her punishments at the home front. She couldn’t stand the
pains anyone.
She said: “I didn’t want to leave because of my
religion. I don’t believe in divorce, but the beating continued. I lost my baby
last year. He abandoned me and my children because of our housemaid. He hits me
every time. He would ask me to go and get money to give him from anywhere. I
don’t know whether he wants me to go and steal. I used to give him so that
peace would reign.
“I had never arrested him because I didn’t want
people to say I’m using my power as a policewoman. He keeps threatening me. I’m
a very unhappy woman. I’m living in fear. He doesn’t take care of the kids and
doesn’t care whether there’s food in the house or not. He doesn’t care whether
his kids eat or not.
“He has reported me everywhere, to the extent my
superior officers called me. It was very embarrassing to me. My parents said I
should leave. They said if anything happened to me, I would have myself to
blame. I’m living with my parents right now.”
Reacting to the allegations, Imo State Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Andrew Enwerem, a Deputy Superintendent of Police
(DSP), said Esonwune wrote a petition but had not been seen at the police
command to verify his claims.
Enwerem added: “I’m not exonerating him of any
claims, but remember his wife is a police officer, working with us. Does that
mean when he sees his wife in the police car, he would be thinking another
thing? He was expected to come and stand by his claims, either for resolution
or he should go to court.”
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