An organisation that seeks the protection of women's rights and the girl child, Women Aid Collective (WACOL), has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba over the assault and brutalisation suffered by a woman. The group asked the police chief to order a thorough investigation into the assault on a widow, Mrs. Anthonia Umeabelu Okonkwo, by some youths of Agunese Affam-Mmaku community in the Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State for allegedly picking snails in a forest supposedly forbidden.
Group Petitions Nigerian Police Inspector General Over Widow Assaulted, Stripped Naked For Picking Snails In ‘Forbidden Forest’The group asked the police chief to order a thorough investigation into the assault on a widow, Mrs. Anthonia Umeabelu Okonkwo, by some youths of Agunese Affam-Mmaku community in the Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State for allegedly picking snails in a forest supposedly forbidden.
A of Enugu State, in the practice of brazen barbarity, stripped a widow naked, and compelled her to walk around the community in her nudity because she allegedly picked snails from a certain forest in that community, considered an evil ground."The organisation stated that contrary to reports in some quarters, its on-the-spot analysis of the event and visit to the hospital where the victim is recuperating indicates that the ground where the snails were harvested is not forbidden.
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