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Bereaved Family Seeks N100m as Damages over Daughter’s Death
The family of late (Mrs.) Regina Iheanacho, who was allegedly murdered by her husband, Nkem Ihenacho, has approached an Ikeja High Court of Lagos State, seeking an order to compel the deceased’s husband to pay them the sum of N100 million as general damages for the death of their daughter.
The deceased, (nee Regina Inyang James) a native of Afia Nsit Udua Nko in Nsit Ibom Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom, was allegedly beaten to death by her husband on April 23, 2013.
Her corpse has since then been deposited in the mortuary till date while the husband, a brother to the former Minister of Interior, Capt. Emmanuel Iheanacho (Rtd) and staff of Genesis Worldwide Shipping was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for involuntary manslaughter after four years of trial and is still serving jail term in Ikoyi Prison, Lagos.
Vexed over the alleged insensitivity and disregard by the Ihenaecho family over their loss, the bereaved family had through their counsel, Onwu Ekowa, Udoh & Co., berated them for abandoning her corpse in the mortuary for six years now.
This Day, Monday, April 1, 2019
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