Widows Will No Longer Drink Bath-water Of Their Dead Husbands In A/ibom

The custom allowing the seizure of deceased husbands properties and subjecting their widows to inhuman practices such as shaving of the head and making them drink the water used to bath their husbands, among others, have now become illegal in Akwa Ibom State.


The state government, in a bill passed by the House of Assembly and signed by the governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, outlawed the custom which maltreat widows after the deaths of their husbands, declaring it as unlawful and inhuman.

In his Democracy Day speech, the governor declared that it had become unlawful for widows to be maltreated in Akwa Ibom, saying defaulters of the law risk fines and three years imprisonment.

While reacting on the new law, the First Lady of the state, Chief (Mrs) Unoma Ekaette Akpabio, commended the House of Assembly and the governor for the pro-women law, describing the passage of the law as a breakthrough for the womenfolk in the state.

According to her, “I appreciate the state House of Assembly and the state governor for standing with the womenfolk through this law. Akwa Ibom State has, in the last five years, shown itself as pro-masses and pro-women.”

Vanguard

This is a great move by the sponsors and supporters of this bill. All archaic and evil must be stamped out from my state.
Kudos to the governor, his wife and the entire Akwa Ibom house of assembly.

DAYUMMMMM. HAVING SAID THAT THE OUTLAWZ SMOKED TUPACS ASHES IN THEIR BLUNTS SO HE CAN BE WITH THEM FOREVER. TRUE STORY

[size=20pt]W.T.F!!!!!![/size]

How wuld sm1 drink dead body water.

[size=18pt]WORSE THAN BOKO HARAM![/size]

strange cultural practice.

Princessaleeza: How wuld sm1 drink dead body water.

WELL YOU DO IT EVERYDAY WITHOUT KNOWING IT. ASHES TO ASHES AND DUST TO DUST. ALL DEAD RETURN TO THE EARTH AND SEA SO WHEN YOU DRINK WATER YOU ARE DRINKING YOUR ANCESTORS

ok shaving of head is fine, but drinking deadbody water. .

What the fck, drinking water used to bath the dead in Nigeria? What backwardness.

Thank ‎​G̶̲̥̅̊Ø̸̸̨̲̣̣D̶̲̥̅.

obadiah777: WELL YOU DO IT EVERYDAY WITHOUT KNOWING IT. ASHES TO ASHES AND DUST TO DUST. ALL DEAD RETURN TO THE EARTH AND SEA SO WHEN YOU DRINK WATER YOU ARE DRINKING YOUR ANCESTORS

this israelite fellow na have explanation 4 everytinz

rooftech: this is igbo culture not akwa ibom

if its not their culture they won't say it.

Without d law sef common sense no fit tell our people say this kind tin no make sense ?..... Good law though

Wonders shall neva end

PAGAN 9JA:
strange cultural practice.

wow! Is like you are now going to church or mosque?

obadiah777: WELL YOU DO IT EVERYDAY WITHOUT KNOWING IT. ASHES TO ASHES AND DUST TO DUST. ALL DEAD RETURN TO THE EARTH AND SEA SO WHEN YOU DRINK WATER YOU ARE DRINKING YOUR ANCESTORS

kai tufiapa,olorunmaje,God forbid.that is y I prefer treated water.

PAGAN 9JA:



this damned israelite fellow na have explanation 4 everytinz

THEY CALL ME THE BOTTOMLESS PIT OF KNOWLEDGE SIRE

190: No wonder that state is so backward!

charlie akwa ibom is not backward

There's a welcome development. A big thanks to the State Governor and the entire members of the State House of Assembly.

rooftech: this is igbo culture not akwa ibom

It's worse in akwa Ibom. There the village chiefs come together to shave the pubic hairs of a widow.

redsun: no wonder they see all suffering children as witches.

How on earth could that have happened in the name of culture?

Poof! There goes your chance for the SE to be part of the SS with the unnecessary insult! It has been admitted that Ibos do the same thing, no?

drinking of dead hubby's bathe water............:/ dat un Godly,diabolic and unhygienic...arrrrhhh o badt gaooonnn