About 200 women from Abakaliki in Ebonyi state have caused
pandemonium after they protested n*ked over what they termed as
injustice on the part of the Nigerian police.
There was confusion at Nkwegu community near Abakaliki, capital of
Ebonyi State as over 200 women from Afikpo South Council area of Ebonyi
state protested half-n*ked.
The women were protesting the continued detention of the President
General of the community, Ndubuisi Ekumankama by the police after he was
detained for allegedly demolishing a widow’s house in Amangwu Edda
community.
It was gathered that the woman who had wanted to protest at the
Government House were stopped by policemen at the Nkwegu, near military
cantonment. The women protested n*ked as their breasts were displayed
for all to see.
However, things were brought under control by the Police
Commissioner, CP Peace Ibekwe Abdallah who immediately mobilised another
team of policewomen led by the Officer in charge of Criminal
Investigation Department, who led other policewomen to the scene.
Speaking about the incident, the Ebonyi State Police Public
Relations Officer, (PPRO), ASP George Okafor, described the actions of
the protesting n*ked women as against the norm of the society. He said
the women were wrong to have protested n*ked after they had been told
that case involving the President General of the Community has been
charged to court.
“Last week, a group of women numbering about 20 stormed the
state headquarters to protest over the arrest and detention of a suspect
who was being held for demolishing a widow’s house in Amangwu-Edda.
After we spoke to them, they even saw the suspect and he spoke to them
which showed that he is alive. They went back and today again, we got
information that the same women had gone and mobilised over 200 other
women to storm the government house to protest and we also got
information that they were coming into the town naked so we tried to
halt them from gaining entrance into the city.
“Our men who earlier got to the scene were repelled because of
the sight of the nakedness of these women and we had to mobilise our
police women led by woman ACP in charge of CID. They went there as
women, who understood each other. And they had more access to them
unlike the men who were being careful because these women were naked.
Their actions were unfortunate and shameful. They have desecrated the
Igbo culture by protesting naked over a politically motivated issue. If
there were reasons to protest naked, these women should have known that
it must be a serious issue.” he said.

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