Anambra State Government through the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare, has waded into the case of a seventy-four-year-old woman allegedly burnt to death in her wheelchair at Abagana in Njikoka Local Government Area.
The criminal act was said to have been carried out by four suspects namely a twenty-one-year-old Chinenye Ekwenugo, forty-seven-year-old Uzochukwu Okeke, sixty-year-old Fidel Anayo and Ikenna Anene aged fifty-four.
Items recovered at the crime scene were the burnt remains of the deceased, her wheelchair, and a casket.
Speaking after visiting the scene of the crime, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo decried the high rate of homicide in the society and stated that the case will be charged to court in order to get justice for the matriarch.
The suspects though initially denied knowing what happened to the seventy-four-year-old woman later admitted that they were around after the fire incident but Chinenye confessed that her boyfriend Ifeanyi Igwe who is currently at large and three others set the victim ablaze and got a casket to bury her before the intervention of security operatives.
Investigations revealed that the children of the deceased did not take any action when they heard of their mother’s death.
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