Though dead, Nnenna Onu may get justice at last, because of the dust her gruesome murder is raising within and outside Ebonyi State. Nnenna, 35, was butchered and allegedly set ablaze by her father’s kindred on December 23, 2021 for demanding her late father’s property.
The incident occurred in Amaegu Anike, Onicha Igboeze community in Onicha local government area of Ebonyi state. Her 65 years old mother, Mrs. Agnes Okorie had approached the state Family Law center calling on the special court to bring the killers of the young lady. Madam Okorie accused her husband’s kinsmen of conspiracy, mysterious murder of her 6 children earlier, brutally killing Nnenna in their compound and setting her corpse ablaze.
She also alleged that Nnenna’s killers absconded with one Nnenna’s ankle-foot and set every valuable in her house on fire. The woman told the Family Law Centre that she gave birth to eight children comprising 5 males and 3 females but 6 of them died mysteriously leaving only two females.
She said that following the death of all her five male children her husband’s half brothers, sisters and kinsmen led by one Okoro Nwaokorie who is now late, allegedly began to maltreat them to the extent that her husband left the extended family main compound and built a personal house far away for peace to reign despite that it was his inheritance as first son of the family.
Madam Okorie further alleged that they compelled her husband to get a second wife, constantly beat her and the girls up at any slightest provocation, maltreating them by depriving them turns to harvest palm fruits from the family plantation, other economic trees and cultivating on their kindred land in spite of the fact that her husband, Onu Okorie was the eldest son in the family, simply because he had no surviving male child. According to the widow, amidst the maltreatments she and her husband fell sick but the man didn’t make it, as if the pain was not enough. The extended family accused her and the girls of killing their brother, excommunicated them and secretly fixed his burial date without their consent and knowledge.
She noted that five days to the burial date, Nnenna got the information and dragged the kindred to National Human Right Commission Abakaliki and Ebonyi state Family Law Center for planning to bury their father without their knowledge and consent just because they are females and the organization intervened and stopped the plan.
According to the woman, the kindred felt challenged and embarrassed by the action of her late daughter whom they described as “little girl of yesterday”, consequently threatened to deal with her and cut off the legs that took her to National Human Right Commission.
She revealed that in November 2021, she and her girls were also accused of diabolically killing one of her stepsons, Okoro Nwaokorie and that as the hostility increased, in the night of 23rd December 2021, Nnenna was attacked, killed and set ablaze alongside their valuables in the compound, when she was sick and traveled to Abakaliki to receive medical care.
The widow alleged that her daughter’s killers cut off her leg from the ankle and made away with it and called on governments at all levels, cooperate bodies and all well meaning Nigerians to intervene and secure justice for her as she cannot afford the services of a lawyer to seek redress in a court of law.
“They excommunicated and accused me and my girls of being witches and having eaten up all my male children to frustrate their brother (my husband). Between December and now, the police is yet to make any arrest despite the gruesome murder of my daughter in her father’s compound. The corpse was buried after some days because the morticians refused to accept her for preservation. Now I am left with only one child out of 8”, she lamented.
The deceased’s younger sister, Mrs Juliet Onu, appealed to Governor Dave Umahi and all the security agencies in the state to help her family to apprehend Nnenna’s killers and bring them to justice.
Narrating the circumstances surrounding Nnenna’s death, Juliet feared that she could have been murdered over her efforts to recover their family inheritance after their father’s death. Juliet alleged that their inheritance was taken away after the death of their father many years ago, followed by the “mysterious death” of all their male siblings.
Mexico Gulf “After the death of our father and brothers, Nnenna and I have been struggling to survive with our poor mother. “When I got married, I left, leaving Nnenna alone with our mother. Today, my mother cannot go to farm because she has been deprived from ownership of any property after our father’s death.
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