Billionaire Ikpea defies court order as he evicts his wife from their Banana Island Mansion to accommodate his ex-sidechic

Mrs Agnes Ikpea has prayed the Appeal Court, Benin, Edo State, to set aside a ruling which her estranged husband, Chief Leemon Ikpea, relied upon to evict her from their 

matrimonial home in Lagos.

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Chief Ikpea had filed a petition at the Edo State High Court in Benin seeking the dissolution of his 39-year marriage which produced six children. He also filed an ex-parte application asking the court to order his wife to vacate the matrimonial home on Banana Island in Lagos.

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On February 17, 2021, Justice J. I. Acha granted the application. However, the judge directed the petitioner to provide suitable accommodation for Agnes around Victoria Island.

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But the estranged wife alleged that the husband threw her out of the house without providing her with any alternative suitable accommodation as ordered by the court.

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Justice Acha had refused Mrs Ikpea’s application to transfer the case to Lagos since both parties reside in the state. Following the ruling, Mrs Ikpea’s lawyers filed an appeal.

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They also applied for a stay of execution of the order and an injunction restraining Chief Ikpea from carrying out the order pending the hearing of her appeal.

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The 64-year-old woman said the husband disregarded the appeal and the motion for stay of execution and went ahead to throw her out.

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In a video recorded by her daughter who came to fetch her after she was left stranded outside her matrimonial home, she said some hired thugs sent her packing bare-footed without concluding arrangements for where she would stay.

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Billionaire Ikpea had married Agnes under native law and custom.  He later married a new wife – who allegedly used to be his sidechic – under the same native law and custom and sought to end his marriage to Agnes.