pandemonium in Ebonyi as women protest naked

There was discombobulation in Nkwegu community near Abakaliki on Monday when over 200 women from the Afikpo-South Local Regime Area divested unclad to protest the alleged perpetuated detention of the President General of the community, Ndubuisi Ekumankama, by the police.
Ekumankama was alleged to have demolished a widow’s house in Amangwu Edda community of Ebonyi State. It was accumulated that the unclad women were peregrinating to the Ebonyi State Regime House in Abakaliki but were intercepted by policemen at Nkwegu, near a military cantonment. Our correspondent amassed that the policemen who intercepted the unclad women were discombobulated as to how to handle the peculiar protest. The protesting women were unclad in the upper regions of their body. It was learnt that some policemen fled the scene of the protest because of the notion that policemen who endeavor to stop unclad protesters would die.

The Ebonyi State Police Commissioner, Ibekwe Abdallah, had to send a team of policewomen to the scene of the protest. It was the team of policewomen that brought the protest under control. Attesting the incident, the Police Public Cognations Officer, Ebonyi State Command, George Okafor, described the action of the unclad women as ignominious and a desecration of the Igbo culture. Okafor verbalized the women had orchestrated the protest last week but were advised to seek licit redress as the president general, who apprehended by the police, had been charged to court.

The PPRO verbally expressed, “Last week, a group of women numbering about 20 stormed the police headquarters to protest the apprehend and detention of a suspect who was being held for demolishing a widow’s house in Amangwu-Edda. “After we verbalized with them, they even optically discerned the suspect and he verbalized with them. This showed them that he is alive. They went back. “Today, we got information that the same women had gone and mobilised over 200 other women to storm the Regime House in protest. We additionally got information that they were coming into the town unclad so, we endeavored to halt them from gaining ingression into the city. “Our men who earlier got to the scene were repelled because of the visual perception of the disrobement of these women and we had to mobilise our policewomen, led by a female Assistant Commissioner of Police.

Their action was lamentable and ignominious.” The PPRO integrated that the policewomen were able to put the situation under control without any casualty, integrating that two suspects apprehended for demolishing the widow’s house have been charged to court.