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  The Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Ify Obinabo, has condemned in the strongest term, the reported transfer of the nine-year-old girl, Idimmachukwu, who was assaulted and battered by her guardian, from the hospital where she was admitted in Awka, Anambra State capital to another hospital.   Idimmachukwu was transferred to a hospital in Asaba without the consent of the Anambra State Ministry of Women Affairs.  

The Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, in collaboration with the state police command, has arrested one Chinyere Ifesinachi for allegedly torturing her house help, identified as Idinmachukwu, with pestle and cane.

The woman will be prosecuted after police investigation, according to an official.

The State’s Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare,  Ify Obinabo, told journalists in Awka on Saturday, that the 25-year-old Ifesinachi was arrested following a tip-off.

A group of women in Anambra State on Thursday staged a peaceful protest against the “barbaric” and “unwholesome” practice of forcing widows to drink the water used in washing the corpse of their late husbands.   The protesters made reference to incidents in Atani community in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state.