Widows in Imo State rain curses on Governor Rochas Okorocha

Hundreds of widows in Imo State have placed curses on the state gover­nor, Rochas Okorocha, and his supporters for allegedly peddling falsehood that the widows placed a mock coffin at the gate of Government House during their protest two weeks ago.

Speaking after their praying and fasting session yesterday in Owerri, the chairperson of Imo Wid­ows Association, Mrs. Ijeoma Nwabueze, expressed shock that rather than condemn the beating of the widows, Governor Okorocha and the Eze Ohiri-led Council of Ndi Eze resorted to blackmail and false­hood to disparage the innocent widows and cover the atroc­ity the youths had committed against their mothers.

“We pray that if the allegation of parading a mock coffin is true, then whatever Ndi Eze Imo wish of them, let it come to pass. But if not, may coffin never depart from their fami­lies and the Almighty God, who is the husband of the wid­ows, should visit their wives,” Nwabueze said.

The association of widows also placed curses on tradi­tional rulers who attended the cleansing ceremony and the hoodlums who were allegedly mobilised by the state govern­ment to flog and inflict injuries on them.

“Those who knew that the governor and the traditional rulers’ accusation is false and are promoting it, there is a curse attached to such atrocity, and also, whoever may have participated or engineered the attack on the harmless wid­ows, who merely engaged in a peaceful protest, cannot go unpunished,” the widows de­clared.

They stated that the wrath of the God of widows would also visit two commissioners in the state and a top female official of the State Universal Educa­tion Board (SUBEB) for alleg­edly supervising the beating of the widows and alleging later that the widows were found with a mock coffin.

The widows prayed for quick recovery of those who sustained injuries during the protest.

A group of thugs had on Monday, February 9, 2015, beat up some widows who were peacefully protesting allegations by some APC stalwarts in Imo state that Minister of State for Education, Prof Viola Onwuliri, killed her husband who had died in a plane crash.

Prof Onwuliri has since denied that she sponsored the protesting widows.