Women group joins hunt for ‘wicked Madam’ Adachukwu Okafor with N1m bounty
Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye
Published By: Ayorinde Oluokun
By Alex Enebeli
The Umuada Awgu Global Association (UAGA), a women’s group in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State has joined the search for one Mrs Adachukwu Okafor who had earlier been declared wanted by the police in Anambra for brutalizing her 11-year-old house help.
The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development had also on Tuesday announced a N2 million reward for any person with useful information on the woman’s whereabouts.
Okafor allegedly brutalised her house help, Happiness Nwafor, whom she brought in January to live with her.
Adachukwu Okafor was reported to have inserted a hot knife into the minor’s private part and also burned her face and buttock with a hot electric iron.
Joining the search for the fleeing woman, the Founder and President of UAGA, Chinemerem Anyi, at a press briefing on Thursday in Enugu announced N1 million financial reward for any informant on the fleeing woman’s whereabouts.
The group also issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Okafor to hand herself over to the police.
According to Anyi, anybody who avails the police, Anambra State Government or other relevant authorities with useful information that can lead to the woman’s arrest will smile home with N1 million from the group.
She said that Adachukwu Okafor, who hail from Anambra and lived in Onitsha, had accused her house-help of touching the private part of her eight-year-old daughter, while bathing her.
Anyi, who was flanked at the briefing by other members of the group, said “it beats our imagination that almost three weeks after the woman perpetrated the evil act, the police were still saying that she is still at large”.
She said that the organisation was beginning to smell a rat, “going by the manner the matter was being handled by the Anambra Police Command”.
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She said that the group also issued the police 48-hour ultimatum to apprehend the perpetrator or incur its wrath.
She said: “The Awgu women have been resisting the temptation of taking the law into our hands over the matter as civilised people but we warn that such calm disposition should not be taken for granted or weakness.
“We are heartbroken over the barbaric act and today, we gathered for this important press briefing over the recent brutalisation of our daughter, Miss Happiness Nwafor, by her wicked madam.
“We are using this platform to call on the woman to better submit herself to the police or other relevant authorities, because no matter where she is, she will be fished out.
“Our searchlight is on you and we will not rest until justice is served on this matter,” Anyi said.
The group urged the police and Anambra Government to, as a matter of urgency, employ every arsenal to apprehend the woman, saying that it was being pushed to the wall over the issue.
“Okafore has murdered sleep and cannot sleep, she has bitten more than she can chew,” it also said.
The group, therefore, called on mothers to bear the number of children they could carter for, so as to avoid giving out their underaged children as househelps.
The group had on February 7, staged a peaceful protest in Enugu, demanding justice for the victim.
Meanwhile, the Anambra Police Command has declared Adachukwu Okafor woman, who is said to be at large, wanted.
(NAN)
