Ugwuonye launches action against man who asked wife to swear an oath

The founder of the Due Process Advocates (DPA), Ephraim Emeka Ugwuonye Esq. has launched legal action against a man, one Mr. Emmanuel, who forced his wife, Francisca, to swear an oath.

Barrister Ugwuonye disclosed this in an article he made available to ElombahNews on Saturday.

In the piece titled “Action on the case of the woman asked to swear an oath“, Ugwuonye wrote:

“Until we began to look into these matters, I did not realize how widespread the level of domestic injustice is in Nigeria.

“I call it “domestic (in)justice” because we are looking at the level of fairness and justice within the family – between husband and wife, between parents and children, between siblings and their in-laws, between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, between in-laws and their prospective sons-in-law, etc.

“And the problem is that we lack the laws and institutions that would ordinarily guarantee justice in the family.

“The level of injustice that exists in these domestic settings is astonishing. They gossip. They hate. They plot against one another.

“Indeed, the level of domestic injustice is greater than injustice between the tribes. If we ignore it, we cannot achieve justice at the wider social levels.

“Anyway, I have been trying to bring some normalcy in the life of the woman being forced to travel to the village to swear an oath in a shrine.

“I figured that the goal of the man and his lover is to force the wife to leave Abuja and return to the village. There, the man would give some excuses and ask her to stay with her family in the village.

“Then he and his lover would move into the matrimonial home and the wife would be separated from her children and forced to live in the village.

“The pressure is high on the woman because the woman’s relatives are all uneducated people in the village.

“So, the only debate among them is whether she should go to a shrine or swear in the church.

“I have sent the following letter to the man via his WhatsApp. I hope he gets it.

“At the same time, we are taking steps to make sure he does not go to harass his wife as he threatened.”

See a copy of the WhatsApp message below:

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