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The Nigeria Police Force has arrested six people involved in the alleged torture and dehumanisation of a widow in an Enugu State community. SaharaReporters reported that Mrs. Anthonia Umeabelu Okonkwo, a mother of four, was on October 22, stripped naked by youths of Agunese Affam-Mmaku community in the Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State for allegedly picking snails in a forest supposedly forbidden. The youths also compelled her to walk around the community naked as punishment for her actions and also assaulted her.

An organisation that seeks the protection of women's rights and the girl child, Women Aid Collective (WACOL), has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba over the assault and brutalisation suffered by a woman.   The group asked the police chief to order a thorough investigation into the assault on a widow, Mrs. Anthonia Umeabelu Okonkwo, by some youths of Agunese Affam-Mmaku community in the Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State for allegedly picking snails in a forest supposedly forbidden.

Mrs Anthonia Okonkwo, the widow allegedly stripped naked by some youths in an Enugu State community says she did not harvest snails from the scared forest as alleged by the perpetrators.

Narrating her ordeal, the 44-year-old widow said she harvested and sold snails in the community for a long time to cater for her four...