Women Storm Police Station After Lady Was Killed On Her Farm In Imo (Graphic)

Women in Okata Community, Ihitte/Uboma local government area of Imo state, stormed the Divisional Police Office in Isinweke over the gruesome murder of their colleague, Mrs Evelyn Duru, as they requested for intensification of efforts to arrest and prosecute the culprits.

The
protesting women asked the DPO to provide adequate security to enable
them attend to their farms with a view to providing food for their
children.

Spokesperson of the women, Mrs Beatrice Nwachukwu, also
disclosed that the deceased was a very hard working woman, a quality
she said Okata women are known, a thing that drove her to her farm only
for unknown people to murder her.

In his response, Mr Charles
Njoku, DPO, Ihitte/Uboma LGA thanked them for their orderly conduct and
assured them that he do all within the ambit of the law to arrest and
prosecute those involved. According to the DPO ‘the seriousness of this
crime even made the Commissioner of Police to visit the scene of the
crime.