Anambra govt to prosecute persons who deny women right to inherit properties 

The Anambra authorities has commenced moves to unafraid the close of women to inherit spot successful the state, against the fashionable Igbo civilization of the southeast, wherever women are denied entree to household inheritance.

The age-old signifier has persisted successful the southeast, with galore members of the nationalist inactive indulging successful the discriminatory practices contempt a Supreme Court ruling declaring it illegal.

However, the Attorney General of Anambra State, Mr Tobechukwu Nweke, has initiated steps for the prosecution of those denying females the close of inheritance successful the authorities and directed the Nigeria Police to analyse specified complaints and transmit the lawsuit record to his bureau for prosecution.

A property merchandise by the peculiar adjunct connected media to the Anambra State Governor, Mr Ejimofor Opara, quoted a missive to the Nigeria Police, signed by the Attorney General, saying the authorities volition commence ineligible enactment against those who contradict women their inheritances.

Opara said: “The missive noted that the obnoxious practices of denying women and girls their close to inherit spot due to the fact that they are females amounts to a transgression nether Section ...