Outrage As Youths Strip, Parade Enugu Widow

Outrage was spreading at the weekend after a widow was paraded naked around her community in Agunese Affam-Mmaku Community in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State for allegedly picking snails from a sacred forest.

The Nation reports that the 57 year-old widow was stripped on Friday and paraded round the village without clothes for daring to pick snails from a forest regarded as sacred in the village.

In a viral video of the woman on the social media, a mob beat her up and stripped her, tied palm fronts round her naked waste and neck before parading her round the village.

Her abusers, who were mostly youths of the village, also forced the widow to carry the basket of snails on her head while parading the entire community naked.

The incident has expectedly drawn condemnation from the members of the public, particularly women groups in Enugu State, who described the act against the widow as dehumanizing.

In a joint statement, the women groups said it was inhuman to strip a woman of her pride which is her covering for mere pieces of snails.

“It hurts further to know that these snails are not lab-manufactured or already offered to the god’s but termed sacred on the basis of archaic laws.

“We raise our voices in the loudest to condemn this impunity, this shame called protecting a supposed sacred site. We outrightly lend our voices and actions to declare to the world that this is totally unacceptable. This act is wild and desperately annoying.

“How do we preserve this woman’s nudity after parading her nakedness to the world. The swiftness and virality of the social media is not one to be joked with as we can shamefully agree that half of the world must have seen this by now .

“We condemn every part of this and say that the culprits must be brought to book. They must apologize to the women folk nationwide and pay a huge sum to this woman after packing bags of snails to plead with her,” the Enugu women groups said in condemnation of the actions against the widow.

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