The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has charged the Lagos state Attorney-General; the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris and the Lagos state governor to intervene and ensure justice in the alleged murder of Mrs. Onyedikachi Dinma (Nee Ngoforo) in Lagos state by her husband, Mr. Samuel Mgbeodinma.
It also asked President Muhammadu Buhari to reorganize the ministries of Youth/Sports and Women Affairs such that they would be headed by pro-human rights ministers, pointing out the urgent need for states in the federation and the federal government to establish functional directorates to take care of domestic violence.
The rights group said the spate of domestic violence in the country was on the increase because the justice sector had been crippled by many factors, the high level of governmental impunity in high places and because ordinary people see their elected officials behave recklessly without adherence to the rule of law so they too believe that they can commit murder and manipulate the dysfunctional system to go unpunished.
“Federal government needs to embark on massive advocacy campaigns to sensitize Nigerians on the inevitable fate that await them should they be involved in domestic violence,” it said, lamenting that Mrs. Onyedikachi, who was 12 weeks pregnant, was the fourth woman to have been killed by their spouses in the last two weeks.
HURIWA asserted that there was the need for a national summit on domestic violence and for justice to be fully carried out against suspected murderers.
“Whilst we call on the Lagos state police commissioner who is building a reputation for himself as a non-nonsense officer to take direct charge of this case of suspicious death of this youngster Mrs. Onyedikachi Ngoforo in the hands of her husband, we are petitioning the Inspector General of police so his attention is drawn to the allegations that the parents of the alleged killer husband who is on the run, are beginning to build up some conspiracy theories on the cause of the death of their daughter-in-law even before a scientific autopsy is carried out on her remains.
“May we call the attention of both the Lagos state police commissioner and the Inspector General of Police to the statements made by the mother of the allegedly murdered house wife Mrs. Onyedikachi Dinma (Nee Ngoforo) to the friend of her daughter in which she narrated the ugly scenarios of domestic violence and abuses her late daughter was subjected to before her suspicious death.”
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