{"id":1379,"date":"2022-11-06T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2023-05-22T17:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:13:12","slug":"enugu-six-persons-involved-in-stripping-a-woman-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/enugu-six-persons-involved-in-stripping-a-woman-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Enugu: Six Persons Involved In Stripping A Woman Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Six persons have been apprehended over their alleged involvement in the stripping and maltreating of a woman in Enugu Community.The youths hail from Agunese, Affam-Mmaku Autonomous Community in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State beat the woman beyond recognition and stripped her naked for picking snails around a said \u2018sacred shrine\u2019 in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This action did not go down well with lots of Nigerians that have humanity at heart and has been outrightly condemned the act. However, the six persons that are culprits in this evil act have been arrested by the operatives of Enugu State police command. Following their arrest, the Commissioner of Police, in the state, CP Ahmed Ammani, fdc, ordered the State CID Enugu to conduct a full-scale investigation into the matter which took place on the 27th of October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a statement signed by DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the Command\u2019s public relations officer, the CP said such acts won\u2019t be tolerated by the command.\u201cSix (6) male suspects arrested, includes one Okoro Stan aged 46, alleged to have led others in perpetrating the act of beating and parading the said victim round the community. Others include: Jonathan Nwangene aged 43, Maduabuchi Madueke aged 34, Obioma Nwangene aged 39, Anikene Samuel aged 24 and Chukwuebuka Agu aged 32. In addition, frantic investigative efforts are ongoing to arrest others at large.\u201cMeanwhile, ongoing investigation into the case has shown that the suspects also beat up and caused bodily injuries on the victim\u2019s husband and brother, when they attempted to stop them from carrying out the act.\u201cTo this end, the Commissioner, while categorically condemning the said acts of torture, dehumanization and degradation of the person of the victim in contravention of extant laws, especially those bordering on her dignity and fundamental human rights, has further directed that the investigation be concluded within the shortest possible time and the culprits arraigned accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The CP, therefore, urges citizens of the State, particularly traditional rulers and other community leaders, to ensure that utmost caution is exercised when enforcing traditional or customary norms on their subjects, especially when it leads to the contravention of the constitutionally enshrined fundamental rights of the person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six persons have been apprehended over their alleged involvement in the stripping and maltreating of a woman in Enugu Community.The youths hail from Agunese, Affam-Mmaku Autonomous Community in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State beat the woman beyond recognition and stripped her naked for picking snails around a said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-our-blog","tag-canada_nigeria-canadadev-actionaidnigeria-unwomen-nigeriawomenmatter"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}