The Nigeria Police Force has arrested six people involved in the alleged torture and dehumanisation of a widow in an Enugu State community. SaharaReporters reported that Mrs. Anthonia Umeabelu Okonkwo, a mother of four, was on October 22, stripped naked by youths of Agunese Affam-Mmaku community in the Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State for allegedly picking snails in a forest supposedly forbidden. The youths also compelled her to walk around the community naked as punishment for her actions and also assaulted her.
November 5, 2022The youths also compelled her to walk around the community naked as punishment for her actions and also assaulted her.
The youths also compelled her to walk around the community naked as punishment for her actions and also assaulted her.Consequently, an organisation that seeks the protection of women's rights and the girl child, Women Aid Collective , petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba over the assault and brutalisation suffered by the woman.
"On the 22nd day of October, 2022, the community of Agunese Affam-Mmaku, in Awgu L.G.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."
Ndukwe in the statement noted that the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ammani, had directed the State Criminal Investigation Department to conduct a full-scale investigation into the"viral case of alleged stripping naked of a woman at Agunese, Afam-Mmaku in Awgu Local Government Area, by some youths of the community numbering over twenty , on 27/10/2022, over the allegation that she desecrated their shrine by picking snails therein.
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