By Cajetan Mmuta
The Anambra State Police Command has rescued a woman alleged to have caused the death of her husband in the Aguleri community, in the Anambra East Local Government Area of the state.
Members of the community had in a trending social media tripped the woman naked and led her around the town in what was considered inhuman treatment as people booed and chanted songs round the square.
Elders and youths of the area had earlier laid the corpse of the man beside the woman as she squatted naked at a corner of a room where the man had breathed his last, taunting her of suffocating the man with rounds of sex.
Commissioner of police in the state, Mr. Echeng Echeng described the incident as barbaric and ordered for a thorough study of the video and to identify all the suspects to bring them to book.
Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, in a statement, in Awka the state capital on Sunday, said one suspect had been arrested in connection with the act.
He said the Command is studying the video aimed at identifying other suspects and bringing them to the book.
According to the statement, “The Anambra State Police Operatives have today (Saturday) 12/3/2022 at about12:07 pm rescued a female victim from an angry mob in Aguleri.
The rescue was as a result of a report seen trending video of where a lady was publicly molested and assaulted on an alleged incident of causing the death of her late husband.”
The Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng Echeng while describing the act as barbaric, states that one suspect is already in custody and ordered an immediate study of the video to identify the suspects, arrest them, and bring them to book.
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Further information reveals that the deceased had already been buried before the video started trending. The victim was rescued and she is currently receiving medical care in the hospital.
But a source at the scene of the incident via the video alleged that the woman killed her husband, who was preparing to buried his mother on April 28, 2022, with marathon sexual intercourse.
