Woman stripped and beaten by Facebook friend’s wife cries out for justice

A single mother, Miss Ogochukwu Okafor, whose nude video went viral on the internet in Anambra State has demanded for justice.

She was allegedly attacked and stripped naked by another woman, Tochukwu Azota, who found her with her husband in their matrimonial home.

Okafor, who spoke to newsmen in Awka, on Tuesday said that the video had ruined her reputation and career.

“I am a single mother, I lost my husband and I am just struggling to take care of my boy who is just six years.

“I feel terrible; I feel disorganised; if it is just my face I would have endured it but my nakedness all over the place.

“They have ruined my career both in Nigeria and outside the country,” she lamented.

Tochukwu’s sister, Nwankwo who was also an accomplice in the incident said her intention was to go to her sister’s house who had complained to her about the relationship between her husband and the lady to settle the matter.

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‘’I feel bad, I did not have it in mind that it will turn out this way; My plan was just to go there and settle the situation.

“The memory of my past experience with my ex-husband who took away my son made me to transfer the whole aggression on her.

“My sister called me for help that her husband has been sleeping around with this lady and that got me angry.

“When I got there, the lady ran into the toilet and locked the door and I asked her to come out and flogged her, but I was not the person that sent out the video,” she said.

The Anambra Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Ladodo, who paraded Azotani, his wife, Tochukwu and her friend Ogochukwu for the act, said the suspects stripped their victim and video recorded her naked.

“The suspect’s friend, Nwankwo stripped Okafor naked and flogged her severally while the principal suspect was busy video-taping the incident and thereafter they pushed her out from the compound naked.

“The suspects demanded the sum of N60,000 from their victim or have her further humiliated by pushing the video to the internet.

“Consequently, when the complainant could not pay the money as requested, the principal suspect actualised her threat and posted the naked video to the internet and since then the video went viral,” he said.

By Todimu Ogunade…

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