Anambra State Government has arrested one Uzochukwu Okoli for giving out his underaged daughters in marriage.
Uzochukwu Okoli was apprehended after his daughter reported to the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare the ill treatment being meted to her by the father and the man, he forced her to marry.
The daughter, Chioma, who is currently sixteen years old, said after the death of their mother, their father brought them back from Edo state, where they were going to school to take a husband.
She alleged that she was first forced to live with a man of above seventy years at the age of fourteen but after sometime, she ran back to her father’s house before he finally gave her out to a thirty-four-year-old Chinedu Nweke as husband.
Chioma who also came with her elder sister explained that life with Chinedu has been horrible because he beats her and sometimes mete out ill treatment to her and that made her run away with her nine months old baby.
Her father, Uzochukwu Okoli, on the other hand, claimed her daughter is eighteen years old and at some point, said twenty.
Mr Okoli, when he was handcuffed, threatened to deal with the daughters if he comes out of prison.
He also urged them to pray he dies in prison because he will make life more miserable for them.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, has directed that the case be charged to court so that the children can get justice.
Both Mr. Okoli and Chinedu Nweke were arrested and will be arraigned in court.
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