EBULUE & ORS
V.
EZEBUO

MISITURA OMODERE BOLAJI-YUSUFF, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): All the parties in this appeal are members of Umudioka Village, Okija and they reside in Onitsha. The respondent who was the plaintiff at the Court below alleged that the 1st and 2nd appellants who are husband and wife invited him to their house sometimes in the year 2000 where they requested him to go into a relationship with a widow. He was then a bachelor. When he turned down their request, they alleged that his own mother engaged in such relationship when his father passed away. He confronted his mother with the allegation and his mother did not only deny the allegation, she informed her relatives and kinsmen about the allegation. Her kinsmen approached the father of the 2nd-4th appellants, Ikechukwu Nnubia, the 5th defendant at the Court below who is not a party in this appeal with kola nuts and requested him to invite the 1st and 2nd appellants for explanation on the allegation. The 5th defendant organized th…