Anambra State Government through the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare is set to look into the alleged murder of late Ifeoma Philomena Ajuluchukwu.
Late Ifeoma Ajuluchukwu, a sixty-nine-year-old widow, was said to be murdered by her stepson Chiugo Emmanuel Ajuluchukwu after she was brutalized in her compound in Ojoto, Idemili South council area of the state.
This was made known when the son of the deceased, Mr Onyebuchi Christopher Ajuluchukwu reached out to the Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, regarding the matter.
According to the son, his late father married two wives but unfortunately lived with only his mother while the first wife remarried a long time ago and wedded in Porthacourt but upon the first wife’s death, the son who is equally his step brother Chiugo Emmanuel Ajuluchukwu trained by his mother swore never to let his mother have peace in the compound.
He revealed that it was in the process of the step mother’s burial in the family compound that his step brother removed the roof over his mother’s room and vowed to deal with her mercilessly.
Mr Ajuluchukwu also stated that his step brother did not stop there but went further to beat up his mother, who at the time was already sick, saying that it was while beating her that neighbors gathered and took his mother to the hospital, where she finally gave up the ghost.
Mr Onyebuchi Ajuluchukwu called on government to come to his aid and give justice to his late mother and at the same time restore lasting peace in their family as the step brother has continuously used various security apparatus to fight him and his siblings because they are poor.
Responding, the Women and Social Welfare Commissioner Mrs Obinabo, assured him that she will look into the matter and get justice for his late mother.
The Women Affairs boss used the opportunity to warn that anyone caught maltreating any widow in the state will be handled like a criminal because it is against the law and urged members of the public to always report any act of crime within and outside their neighborhood for the betterment of the state.
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