Some ladies from throughout the 179 communities in Anambra State, on Thursday, launched into a peaceable demonstration to mourn the Late Mrs Blessing Nwaka, the girl who was burnt to demise by her husband in Abagana, Njikoka Native Authorities Space of the state.
The ladies, who marched to the workplace of the Commissioner for Girls and Social Welfare, Dora Akunyili, on the Girls Growth Centre Awka, chanted songs to specific their displeasure in opposition to the act.
They had been made up of girls from totally different ladies’s associations together with the Anambra State Affiliation of City Unions.
The deceased, whose husband, recognized as Obiozor was set ablaze over alleged infidelity, later died on Wednesday at a close-by hospital the place she was rushed to, because of the burns she sustained throughout the incident.
The Nationwide President of ASATU Girls Wing, Mrs Ify Okaro, who led the protesters warned their male counterparts to deal with their spouses with care and love and keep away from conditions that may result in violence.
Additionally, the consultant of the Girls Leaders of communities, Mrs Josine Unachukwu, threatened to raze down the homes of any man who kills his partner once more within the state.
Responding, the Commissioner for Girls and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, assured the ladies of the resolve of the spouse of the state Governor, Mrs Nonye Soludo to make sure that justice takes its full course, calling on males to all the time report their wives to the ministry as an alternative of taking legal guidelines into their fingers.
The ladies who had been visibly offended over the incident chanted, “Marriage will not be a do or die affair”, “anujuo should go”; and “Cease killing ladies” as they continued their protest.