A 35-year-old woman, Nnenaya Onu, has been brutally murdered in Ebonyi State after demanding for her father’s inheritance following the death of her only brother under a mysterious circumstance.
The National Human Right Commission, NHRC is demanding justice for the deceased who was allegedly stripped naked, beaten, dismembered, and burnt behind her father’s house.
The incident reportedly occurred when the victim’s mother travelled to be with another of her daughters named Juliet Onu, who is married.
The suspects took advantage of the situation and attacked Onu who lives alone in her father’s house.
Her burnt remains were found behind her father’s house at Onicha Igbeze of Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on the 23rd of December 2021.
No one has been arrested in connection to the murder.
The state coordinator of NHRC told Vanguard about the incident.
According to NHRC: “She was murdered in cold blood, her leg chopped off and her whole belongings heaped on her while she was burnt beyond recognition.
“All these happened behind her father’s house at Onicha Igbeze of Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
“Her offence is that she insisted on demanding her father’s inheritance as a woman. She was not married but lived in her late father’s house at Onicha Igbeze.
“Her only brother died years ago under mysterious circumstances according to the old mother. She has a surviving sister, Juliet Onu, who is married.
“Her old agonizing mother points at her cousins as the suspects of this atrocity due to their (the said Cousins) numerous threats to her life before she was eventually murdered, dismembered, and burnt.
“Her killers forbade any person from the village from talking about the incident nor even sharing the photo of her burnt carcass either on social media or otherwise.
“Her poor mother wants justice but has no money to sponsor police investigations and arrests.”
