Dear Agatha,

I live in this kind of compound where everybody pretends to mind his or her business. I used the word, pretend because we all seem to know what is going on inside the private rooms of one another.

There are six flats in our house and the landlord occupies the two flats at the last floor. He has three wives and several children.

From what we gather each time there is an outbreak of fight between the man and his wives, the women are in charge of taking care of the children.

The first wife is an established business woman so her children are better off. The last wife came in as a full time housewife. By the time she had her first child, she realized the mess she was in. she practically became a nuisance to all the tenants as she begged for money to take care of her needs.

Sometimes, the first wife would give her money to buy things for the baby. By the time the second child came, she became desperate to find a job or begin a business. It was at that time, the husband started romancing another woman so he didn’t bother with her anymore.

I don’t know what happened but there is this man in our compound the other tenants are rumoring gave her substantial money to begin a business. She has even bought a car and is hardly seen at home.

The wife of this tenant who has been away for sometime is also complaining and threatening to deal with whosoever is trying to destroy her home.

But the problem I have now is that our landlord has enlisted me and my flat-mate to monitor his wife and report back to him. He has promised to write off our outstanding rents if we come up with reports of his younger wife’s illicit affair with the tenant.

He has also threatened to tell the wife of another tenant of my affair with her husband if my flat-mate and I don’t play ball.

I don’t know what to do because I may have my own moral issues but monitoring his wife? I don’t know what to do. Furthermore, do I tell his wife about this issue? I’m close to the woman in question.

From what we gather each time there is an
outbreak of fight between the man and his wives,
the women are in charge of taking care of the
children.

I don’t know what happened but there is this
man in our compound the other tenants are
rumoring gave her substantial money to begin a
business. She has even bought a car and is
hardly seen at home.

I don’t know what to do because I may have my own moral issues but monitoring his wife? I don’t know what to do. Furthermore, do I tell his wife about this issue? I’m close to the woman in question.

Hawx:
No be small Fuji House of Commotion o!

Dyt:
Orisirisi

But the problem I have now is that our landlord has enlisted me and my flat-mate to monitor his wife and report back to him. He has promised to write off our outstanding rents if we come up with reports of his younger wife’s illicit affair with the tenant.

Yomieluv:
Joblessness is bad.

The landlord gave you that assignment because he knows you are broke,and a jobless fellow..

Sophyrocks:
Hehehehehe. You see what i was saying in a thread? Men wey dey practise polygamy no dey fit satisfy their plenty wives dem. Now another man is shinning one of his wives congo. And i am sure the other wives are doing the same. You acquire wives that you cant even care for. They have to seek assistance from other men. And how can they do that? Of course by sleeping with them.

One man satisfy his wives? Impossicant! Open marriage no ni.