Herbalist Marries off 12-year-old Daughter to Drunkard in Enugu

In yet another case of child espousement, the police in Lagos have apprehended a 37-year-old man, Michael Ugwu, for taking a 12-year-old orphan, identified simply as Nneka (illusory name) as a wife.
She was given out in espousement by her grandfather, identified as Abada, a native medico in Enugu State.

The girl and Ugwu, who claims to work as a police SPY official at a federal ministry in Lagos, both hail from Aji in Enugu Ezike town, Igbo-Eze North Local Regime Area of Enugu State.

A police source alluded that Ugwu, had gone to the Ipaja Police Division, Lagos to report that “his wife” absquatulated from home and had since been missing, but that it was until they found the girl, through the avail of one of his neighbours, that they kenned he genuinely got espoused to a minor.

Ugwu told Punch correspondent that the girl’s grandfather disposingly gave her out to him in espousement at their hometown in Enugu State. He integrated that there was a traditional espousement to that effect on January 20, 2016 in the village, attended by about 50 persons, including community elders, the girl’s grandfather and other villagers.

He noted he never optically discerned anything erroneous with taking the girl as a wife because there were elders at the event and they gave their mystical enchantments to the amalgamation, integrating that the girl’s grandfather, who withal transpired to be his old time friend, had assured him that the girl was “not a minute girl.”