25th March, 2011
There is no end in sight yet to the sex scandal rocking a major insurance company, Nigeria Law Union and Rock Insurance Plc, as a businessman, Fidelis Ogwugwua, who is the husband of one of the managers of the insurance company, Charity Ogwugwa has raised an alarm over threat to his life in a petition written to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.
In the said petition written on his behalf by Barrister S. A. Ogunleye, Mr. Ogwugwa alleged that his wife and the Executive Director of Finance of Law Union and Rock Insurance company Plc, Mr. Augustine Segun Ilori, cited as a party ion a divorce petition he filed before a Lagos High Court against his wife, are after his life.
The petitioner has also sent a letter to the Managing Director of the company, Mr. Yinka Bolarinwa and the board of directors of the company in case anything unusual happened to him.
He claimed to have been receiving e-mails and telephone text messages, threatening his life, and now he feels unsafe, as unknown persons have started trailing him.
To support his allegation, Mr. Ogwugwa, claimed that he has recorded video clips, text messages and e-mails, where his life is being threatened and his adversaries claiming to be highly placed and connected with traditional cults who can snuff life out of him
He also alleged that he has evidence of misdeed of his wife and her lover which he gathered over a period of two years.
Barrister Ogunleye who wrote the petition on behalf of Mr. Ogwugwa said that despite two petitions that have been written to the police command at Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos and State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, the police are yet to take any step to investigate the matter.
Consequently, his client is preparing another letter that would be sent to the Inspector-General of Police before anything unusual happened to his client.
All efforts made to get the reaction of Mr. Segun Ilori, and Charity Ogwugwa proved abortive as their known telephone numbers were permanently switched off.
What led to the current threat to life started on 2 March this year when Mr. Ogwugwa served his wife with court process of divorce petition after the duo returned from vacation. Copies of the same court process were also pasted at the head office of Law Union and Rock Insurance Plc at Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos after obtaining a court order to do so.
This was done to put Mr. Segun Ilori who had proved elusive on notice for him to defend himself since he has been fingered as the cause of the break down of their marriage.
In the said divorce petition, Mr. Ogwugwa, alleged that the situation has gone beyond redemption as the woman who bore him two children, Grace and Chibuzor, had been engaging in unprotected illicit sex with two men, one of them a director in the insurance company and the other one a client of the same insurance company.
The petitioner alleged further that his wife was also engaged in oral sex with the two men identified as Olusegun Augustine Ilori and another client of the company.
He said he started suspecting his wife whom he married sixteen years ago when she would excuse herself to receive telephone calls at odd hours since 2003. He then became suspicious and became watchful and decided to follow the issue carefully until he started getting concrete evidence.
Mr. Ogwugwa alleged that the whole matter came to a climax when on 18 April 2010, Ilori sent an e-mail that could only be shared between lovers to his wife, she acknowledged the mail on 19 of April, 2010.
Shortly after that, she forwarded same mail to Segun Ilori who is her executive director and lover in her office and in error forwarded a copy to him. This opened the floodgate of suspicion that led to the discovery of several amorous e-mails between the two executive lovers, the petitioner stated.
As for the other lover, Mr. Onisanya, the petitioner said his wife was also locked in an internet amorous chatting resulting in the exchange of photographs between the two of them on the net in 2008.
Mr. Ogwugwa is now urging the court to dissolve the marriage and grant him the custody of the two children of the marriage
He is also claiming the sum of N20 million as damages from the two men for the illicit affair they had with his wife and trauma they made him go through for their irresponsibility and the role they played in ruining his matrimonial home.
Mr. Olusegun Ilori has also dragged Mr. Fidelis before another Lagos State High Court claiming N100 million for defamation of character.
Meanwhile, the presiding judge, Justice Williams Dawodu has adjourned till Tuesday 12 April this year when the hearing of the divorce case would commence.
—Akin Kuponiyi
