Coronabirus:
With all this wicked culture they couldn't speak for ages and the wickeds don't want them to speak out. If it's another tribe they'd have invaded this thread wth trash!

ejanla077:
Even Yoruba Muslims female dont inherit we all live in Yoruba land. So u can deceive only the people u can..

“AFTER the death of my husband, we put him in the mortuary. But without my knowledge, his close friend connived with my brothers-in-law to take away his corpse from the Teaching Hospital at Nnewi. They then insisted that I must complete the family house my husband was building in the village and I must perform the “Igbuefi” meaning (killing of cow) on behalf of their father, who died since 1991 before the burial could take place”.

“This is the picture of the only farmland we have now. My husband secured the property by surveying it. But, immediately after he died, his brothers came to take away the land. I saw my husband’s relations surveying the land. So, I took the survey plan my husband did many years ago to the Igwe to help me. But, Igwe told me it was rubbish, that my husband has no right to survey a family land.

“My husband’s brothers had collected the frontage of our house and one of our lands we have been cultivating since I married this man. They collected another one in a swampy area. The traditional ruler, Ezeogo passed a judgment that I should leave the land because they will kill me. But, I told him that I will not leave the only land that I am cultivating to feed my children.

“One of those doing this to me was a servant to my late husband, who said my husband did not settle him and also made sexual advances to me after his death but I refused. He promised to deal with me and he is the one who mobilized them against me”.

Igbochief001:
This is a family issue don't bring igbo land into it

Female children are allowed to inherit their fathers property ...it's well know ..and we'll documented

Greedy family members might try to manipulate u ...it's not igbo tradition ...use police and army arrest them ...

But female children can't inherit village or family land because it doesn't belong to the man or the village but future generations ...only people who would stay in that village have right to the land

This is not only igbo tradition but same all over Nigeria

TecM0:





Stupidity at its peak


Male child and female Child have full right to their parents inheritance according to the constitution

Fvck any dumb culture that states otherwise, State Law and The Federal Law are far more powerful than stupid village laws

Unfortunately most of this women would chase rich men, and marry making babies for money and comfort than build on their family legacy



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Igbochief001:
This is a family issue don't bring igbo land into it

Female children are allowed to inherit their fathers property ...it's well know ..and we'll documented

Greedy family members might try to manipulate u ...it's not igbo tradition ...use police and army arrest them ...

But female children can't inherit village or family land because it doesn't belong to the man or the village but future generations ...only people who would stay in that village have right to the land

This is not only igbo tradition but same all over Nigeria

ejanla077:
Funny how the Yoruba that still practice abobaku will leave the log in thr eyes and try to remove the dust in Igbo peoples eye..

Hypocrites.
Even the hausas too are talking...



Once a lady is married he belongs to the husbands family... Anybody wey no like the tree tradition should write a will before he die...

Nobody will contest an authentic will... As long as thr is no will. Everything belongs to the male child...

Unik3030:
it's not same over Nigeria but only in Igbo land,in Yoruba land anybody can inherit anything once u are a member of the family.
we see everyone as equal irrespective of gender.

so if someone like Dangote should have only females now, that means if he dies they won't inherit anything n they won't have access to ancestral lands?

just accept it's a thrash in this present century n stop presenting it like everyone's issue

Unik3030:
it's not same over Nigeria but only in Igbo land,in Yoruba land anybody can inherit anything once u are a member of the family.
we see everyone as equal irrespective of gender.

so if someone like Dangote should have only females now, that means if he dies they won't inherit anything n they won't have access to ancestral lands?

just accept it's a thrash in this present century n stop presenting it like everyone's issue

Unik3030:
the reason y I don't take Igbos serious when they blame anybody is that they are far worse than people they castigate, people who have inheritance issue,OSU,ohu, Freeborn,2nd class citizens,3rd class citizens n d likes will b d ones to condemn others.

Nnamdi Kanu is promising them heaven whereas they have more problems than any other Nigerian tribe,if it were to b any tribe that practices this now hell will let lose

ejanla077:
Funny how the Yoruba that still practice abobaku will leave the log in thr eyes and try to remove the dust in Igbo peoples eye..

Hypocrites.
Even the hausas too are talking...



Once a lady is married he belongs to the husbands family... Anybody wey no like the tree tradition should write a will before he die...

Nobody will contest an authentic will... As long as thr is no will. Everything belongs to the male child...

Gotze1:
[s][/s]Sharap, it is a common practice all over Igboland oga. Stop your epistle.

ejanla077:
Funny how the Yoruba that still practice abobaku will leave the log in thr eyes and try to remove the dust in Igbo peoples eye..

Hypocrites.
Even the hausas too are talking...



Once a lady is married he belongs to the husbands family... Anybody wey no like the tree tradition should write a will before he die...

Nobody will contest an authentic will... As long as thr is no will. Everything belongs to the male child...

ejanla077:
Even Yoruba Muslims female dont inherit we all live in Yoruba land. So u can deceive only the people u can..

Igbochief001:

Oga it's a big lie

Woman has right to inherit this they are only excluded from inheriting ancestral land which is the same everywhere

Igbochief001:

Oga that's a big lie in yoruba land woman don't inherit community land ...

Dangote wealth is personal ..of he died his female children would have absolute right to it

But not his ancestral land

Shehuyinka:
[s]Disinheritance: Widows in Igboland battle against culture that men love to preserve (Part 1)

This report by Alfred AJAYI presents the experiences and testimonies of widows from Southeastern Nigeria where the practice of disinheritance of the bereaved women is prevalent.

“AFTER the death of my husband, we put him in the mortuary. But without my knowledge, his close friend connived with my brothers-in-law to take away his corpse from the Teaching Hospital at Nnewi. They then insisted that I must complete the family house my husband was building in the village and I must perform the “Igbuefi” meaning (killing of cow) on behalf of their father, who died since 1991 before the burial could take place”.

This was a thirty-year-old widow, Ijeoma Ubah, narrating her ordeal in the hands of her husband’s family members shortly after he died.

She continued: “My dear, I did it. I even sold my husband’s highlander to meet up. Then, I asked them to bring the corpse for burial. They said no, that it is time for me to go back to my father’s house with my three daughters. They even came and verbally shared the rooms in our house. At that point, I became confused. That was before somebody gave me the contact of the National Human Rights Commission”.

The death of one’s husband is unarguably a devastating experience, especially for young women who are still nursing young children. It is naturally expected that the condition of such widows will provoke empathy from relations, friends and people of good conscience. But, in parts of Africa, that is not always the case as some of them face forceful ejection from their home, while others are forced to either sleep with the dead bodies of their husbands or drink the water used to bathe the corpses to prove that they had no hand his death.

The climax of such dehumanizing widowhood practices is the disinheritance of the widows by close or distant relations of their late husbands, who lay claim to all that their brother’s estate, including property and wealth gotten in partnership with their wives. The matter is worse in families where men were the breadwinners and the widowed women had been full–time housewives.

A woman who has no male child or has no child at all is usually at greater risk; same as those suspected to have been responsible for the death of their husbands.

Such practices are common among the Igbo of the Southeast of Nigeria and they have led to the abuse, disinheritance, impoverishment and trauma suffered by many widows in the region.

Disinheritance is a violation of the constitutionally guaranteed right of the widows to freedom from discrimination as provided for in Section 42 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), which states that no citizen of Nigeria shall be discriminated against regardless of their place of origin, sex, religion or political opinion. (Please do more research to provide more context about existing statutes and international conventions against disinheritance.)

Man’s inhumanity to women

Cynthia Nweke, from Ezzama, in Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was heart-broken as she narrated her experience battling against efforts to disinherit her with royal complicity.

“This is the picture of the only farmland we have now. My husband secured the property by surveying it. But, immediately after he died, his brothers came to take away the land. I saw my husband’s relations surveying the land. So, I took the survey plan my husband did many years ago to the Igwe to help me. But, Igwe told me it was rubbish, that my husband has no right to survey a family land.

“My husband’s brothers had collected the frontage of our house and one of our lands we have been cultivating since I married this man. They collected another one in a swampy area. The traditional ruler, Ezeogo passed a judgment that I should leave the land because they will kill me. But, I told him that I will not leave the only land that I am cultivating to feed my children.

“One of those doing this to me was a servant to my late husband, who said my husband did not settle him and also made sexual advances to me after his death but I refused. He promised to deal with me and he is the one who mobilized them against me”.

Another widow, Precious Ngozi Nwali, from Amaeka Community, in Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, narrated how documents of lands and other property were deceitfully taken away from her after the death of her husband, leaving her with nothing to train her four children.

“My husband died after a brief illness on February 6, 2019. After his death, his elder brother, Monday Nwali, and his siblings in a meeting in the village collected his phone from me, harvested the yams and cassava we planted and did not give my children and me the proceeds.

On February 11, 2019, my husband’s younger sister, who is a lawyer, led others to our residence in Abakaliki and deceitfully took all the documents for all our lands, a vehicle and a fridge away. She promised to give back to me in three months when I would have recovered from the shock and agony of his demise, but she has refused to do that”.

Precious also alleged that she had been threatened several times by one of her brothers-in-law for daring to demand the documents taken away from her.

“On one occasion, he came to Timber shade (timber shed ?) Nkwoagu with some persons to chase me out of my husband’s shade (shed?) where I am staying right now to trade. He said he would either give it to his younger brother or rent it out. In fact, they have told me several times to go and remarry if I am not comfortable with their actions.”

While this was happening, the widow said her husband’s elder brother “went and claimed one of my husband’s land with the money realized from the burial ceremony.”

It was gathered that the International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, Ebonyi State Chapter had taken up Precious’ matter.

Ijeoma Ubah, a widow who resides in Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra State, also recounted her experience after the death of her husband.

“After the burial, I asked my husband’s friend to give me the document of the land he helped my husband to buy at Akpaka Phase Two, Enugu, at the cost of N2.5 million (two million, fifty thousand naira). That was our first project as a family.

“He shouted at me. I explained to him that I have paid all the people my husband owed and needed money to take care of my three daughters. I waited for months, no response from him.

“In January this year, I went back to the National Human Rights Commission. Through their efforts, he provided an allocation letter, the commission promised to investigate the genuineness of the document from the Ministry of Lands. We are still waiting. But, I noticed that the allocation letter bore March 14, 2016, when my husband was still alive. So, it means he had the document all the while but refused to give to my husband. The allocation letter also carried his name, not my husband’s name”.[/s]

READ MORE: https://www.icirnigeria.org/disinheritance-widows-in-igboland-battle-against-culture-that-men-love-to-preserve-part-1/