The Council Chairman of Awgu, Hon. Pedro Okwudili Nwankwo "Ezeomeogo" condemns the public humiliation/stripping a woman, alleged to have plucked "Sacred Snail" from the community shrine, naked.

 

 

Hon. Pedro Okwudili Nwankwo condemns in strongest terms an online video evidence of a woman publicly humiliated and stripped naked by some villagers in Affam Mmaku after she was being accused of picking "Sacred Snails" from the community shrine.

The Chairman queried why the "people" of the area were the one fighting and defending the Deity instead of the Deity fighting and defending itself.

He stressed that his office had on hearing the news conducted personal investigations while cooperating with the Security Agencies in Awgu LG and other Corporate Organisations in ensuring that right measures and approaches were taken in addressing the barbaric occurrence and forestalling such further inhuman treatment. As at the time of publishing this information, some number of arrests have been made while he is believing that further arrests will still take place.

He acknowledged the concerns of the Commissioner for Gender Affairs Enugu State,   Princess Peace Nnaji, Global Society for Anti-Corruption (GSAC) and the efforts of the Security Agencies in Awgu LG in ensuring that justice is served and that perpetrators were brought to book.

He affirmed that any injudicious act, molestation, assault, stripping a woman naked in public for whatever influence, motivation and reaction are criminal regardless of whomever committed it, wherever and whenever.

Ezeomeogo deeply feels for the victim, the family and her children for the public ridicule and the traumatic experience their mother/wife/aunt/sister is passing through and promised that she will be given fair treatment.

*OCHUBALUAGU for the Chairman Awgu LGA, Hon. Pedro Okwudili Nwankwo.*