MOTHER OF SEVEN DIES OF ALLEGED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN EBONYI COMMUNITY

REPORTER: AMECHI ODO

A mother of seven children, Mrs. Anulika Uguru, has died as a result of alleged domestic violence by her husband at Ekuru Inyimagu Community in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

Radio Nigeria gathered that the victim had filed a complaint with a human right group and had scheduled a visit to the office for further interview on the day she died.

The Chairman, Human Rights Defender, HURIDE, in Ebonyi State, Mr. Sampson Oko, told Radio Nigeria that the victim, had on April 19, 2022 brought a complaint against her husband, Mr. Sunday Uguru, over incessant cases of battery and other right violations.

According to the Chairman of the Human rights group, the victim reported that the husband who was an interstate transporter with no valid phone number was in the habit of assaulting and locking her and her children up whenever he was at home.

Mr. Oko noted that an appointment for further interview was fixed with the victim on April 25, 2022 but after waiting for a while, he dialled her number only for his call to be picked up by someone who informed him that she was lying motionless in a clinic.

Mr. Oko said her husband, who went into hiding, was subsequently arrested with the help of the villagers and was presently in police custody even as he had continued to deny responsibility for the death of the wife.

A brother of the victim, Mr. Friday Nwaebonyi, said his family had severally intervened in the incessant attacks on his sister and had at a time withdrawn her from her husband’s house but had to allow her return after the man promised not to beat her up again.

Efforts to get the reaction of the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mrs. Loveth Odah, proved abortive but Radio Nigeria gathered that the remains of the victim were deposited in a mortuary.