Charity Ngozi Eze, the 20-year-old woman who was raped to death by unidentified persons at Imufu community, Enugu Ezike in Enugu State, has been buried 18 months after her death.
Ngozi was buried on
Friday, August 14, in her father’s compound at Orukpa Imufu after a Requiem
Mass at the St. Joseph Catholic Church.
Ngozi died on March
26, 2019. She had been living with her parents at Abuja but relocated to her
village in Imufu to enable her attend extramural classes for last year’s
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME.
She was reported to
have gone for lessons that day at the Township School Ogrute, Enugu Ezike, but
went missing afterwards. Her body was later found in a bush behind another
Community Secondary School, Imufu, several hours after her family had declared
her missing.
Her death angered
youths in the community yet her killers have not been made to face justice.
The deceased’s
mother, Mrs Eze, has accused the police of a lack of interest in investigating
her daughter's death.
She alleged that the
police extorted money from her family and also from the community, yet the
police have not fished out her daughter's killers even after 18 months.
Speaking at her
daughter's burial ceremony on Friday, August 14, she said she was pained when
she saw some of the alleged suspects walking scot-free and still challenging
the family even before her daughter was buried, Vanguard reports.
Ngozi's burial
pulled a large crowd of sympathisers. Her body arrived at the church in a
motorcade, accompanied by hundreds of youths in the community, clad in black
attire and singing sorrowful songs to mourn her demise.
Below are photos from the funeral.
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