Save Us From Ritual Killings and Marriages To Deities, Enugu-Ezike Women Cries Out

At least 100 women last Tuesday stormed the Enugu State Government House, protesting against alleged ritual killings and forceful marriages to traditional deities.

According to the claims, 11 ladies living in their respective communities were murdered within a space of 2 weeks.

The women alleged that suspected ritual killers and chief priests of different deities in the Enugu-Ezike, Igboeze-North Local Government Area of the state had roles to play in the death of the deceased.

Wearing black dresses and holding palm leaves, the protesting women pleaded with Governor Sullivan Chime to ban forceful marriages to traditional gods in council areas.

The protesters also pleaded with Chime to come to their aid to unravel and stop the killing of women through fetish activities of chief priests and deities in Enugu Ezike.

Their demands were listed in a petition to the governor at the Government House gate. The petition reads in part:

"We also appeal for outright ban of any deity from forced marriage of our women as it violates sections 34 (1), 35 (1) and 42 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria and Africa charter on human and peoples’ rights."

The protesters claimed that at Amachalla and Ugbaike communities, two ladies – Victoria Ugwuanyi and Rosemary Ugwuanyi – were forcefully "married" to a deity called "Iyakpala Ugbaike."

The chief priest of the deity is alleged to have also forced the daughter of a deceased man to marry him after claiming that the same deity killed the father of the girl.
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SEE What Kogi Gov Convoy Did To Dr. Ngozi Iloh (GRAPHIC IMAGE)

The National Welfare Officer of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr. Ngozi Iloh, is still undergoing surgeries at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Edo State.

However, it was earlier reported that she had been treated and discharged in Lokoja, Kogi State, shortly after the accident, which was said to have been caused by the convoy of the Kogi State Governor, Mr Idris Wada, on November 12.

It would be recalled that the widely condemned accident, which happened while members of the union were on their way to Kano for a meeting, claimed the life of the former National President of ASUU, Prof. Festus Iyayi.

Iloh, who was severely injured during the accident, has so far undergone two major surgeries, one on her right leg and another on the left hand.

When asked about a deep tear in her left hand, Iloh was not specific if there was any medical report that the injury was a bullet wound.

According to some speculations as to the cause of Iyayi’s death until a medical examination, there was no evidence of bullets.

In the chat, Iloh said,

"We travelled in a convoy from ASUU Benin zone. We stopped at a filling station to refuel on the way to Kano. The travelling team was from University of Benin, Delta State University, Abraka, and Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma.

"The UNIBEN bus took off and I asked the driver to slow down so the others could catch up with us. My saving grace was that I kept looking back and the rest is history."

When Ngozi Iloh heard that she had been reportedly "discharged" from the hospital after having been treated for minor bruises, she was really shocked. 

She confirmed that she was still in hospital, noting that her injuries were not minor.
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BUS DRIVER KILLED BY PASSENGER FOR CALLING HER NAMES OVER REFUSAL OF N10 BALANCE

A bus passenger was on Monday, Dec 16th arrested by Edo State police officials for allegedly killing an innocent bus driver over the weekend.
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The young commercial bus driver identified as Eze was believed to be in his late 20′s while the woman that killed him is 38-year-old.

Last Saturday, Eze died when his bus passenger strangled him while holding on to his manhood.

The incident was said to have occurred in the early hours of Saturday after the bus driver carried the passenger to the junction of Ohovbe Road, Off Benin Agbor Road, Ikpoba Hill for N40, but the woman entered the bus on argument and refused to pay the N40 instead she paid N30. This angered the driver and when he requested for his balance she refused, this angered  the driver that he started cursing the woman calling her names like ashawo, prostitute, etc..

Angered by the name calling, the female passenger then held the driver’s neck while still inside the bus. People then gathered to settle the dispute and begged the woman let go of his neck. Moments later, the woman returned to meet the driver who had his seat belt on and held his neck with one hand and used her other hand to hold his manhood and started pulling it.

The man begged the woman to leave him but the woman was even more angry by this time, passers by intervened again but it seems the woman was bent on venting out her anger.

When the driver tried to come out of his car, he fell to the ground and started stretching and gasping for breath. People around rushed the driver to a nearby hospital while others whisked the woman to a nearby police station. The young man reportedly died few hours later.
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