Enugu masquerades strip mother of 2 naked for wearing trousers

By KASSIDY UCHENDU, Nsukka
Friday, March 18, 2011

The Odo masquerade in Aku community, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu
State has stripped a single mother of two naked in full public eye glare and in broad daylight.

The offence of the young woman, according to village sources, was that she was putting
on jeans trousers, which is regarded as abomination by adherents of the dreaded Odo cult.

Daily Sun gathered that the enforcement of dress code in the community during the
period of Odo festival was a novel additional assignment given to the masquerades by
the adherents and any violation was visited with vehement brutality.

According to an eye witness the victim, a native of Umu-enenke hamlet, Aku, was in
front of their house where she sells some petty articles to eke-out a living, when a
frenetic horde of Odo masquerades stormed the compound and snatched one of the
twin children of a mother related to the victim, apparently to extort money from her.
When they later returned the child, the victim was said to have uttered some statements
that angered the masquerades as a result of which they descended on her with canes and
stripped her naked before a crowd of villagers, said a witness.

“When I say stark naked, I mean stark naked. They tore the jeans, her blouse and underwear,
before a large crowd of villagers. You don’t know what we are suffering here, the masquerades
are licentious; they are above the law and everybody in this town is afraid of them, so they do
whatever they like,” a native who pleaded anonymity said. Another villager who spoke to Daily
Sun, added that not even a regulation passed by the Aku General Assembly and Aku Welfare
Union could deter the masquerades.

“They are holding everybody to ransom and do whatever they like with impunity. It is unfortunate
that this is happening in a town that has the greatest number of professors in Enugu State,” the
source lamented. Apparently for fear of reprisal, the victim could not say much when she was
reached on phone but only confirmed that she was brutalised and stripped naked by the masquerades,
saying it was an experience she did not want to remember.

A catholic priest in the area, Rev. Father Fred Ogbu, told Daily Sun that he was posted to the new
parish recently but that he had heard a lot about the brutality by masquerades in the area. He said
he received his first baptism of fire few days back when a villager knocked on his door late in the
night to tell him to put off his power generating set.

“When I asked the visitor why, he said nobody was allowed to put on light when the Odo masquerade
called Ocho-oku was performing.”

Source:   http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/mar/18/national-18-03-2011-008.htm

Posted: at 18-03-2011 08:37 AM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac

free cinema
 

Posted: at 18-03-2011 08:57 AM (14 years ago) | Grande Master

Even with this, they are still better enlightened than the northerners!

Posted: at 18-03-2011 09:21 AM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac

What nonsense!

Posted: at 18-03-2011 09:30 AM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac

NONSENSE COMMUNITY

Posted: at 18-03-2011 10:52 AM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac

 make God punish dat yeye masqurade.masqurade my foot,im 4 talk sey im wan see d woman nakedness.maybe im don dey toast d woman since,and she no gree,im wan ko use masqurade to camouflage. 

Posted: at 18-03-2011 01:25 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie

sometimes the stories i read on naijapals amaze me. why can't we be factual? i don't read newspapers cuz the stories are always 99% false propaganda only to get their paper sold and cheap publicity. 

NOW...

The Odo masquerade in Aku community, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu
State has stripped a single mother of two naked in full public eye glare and in broad daylight.
The offence of the young woman, according to village sources, was that she was putting
on jeans trousers, which is regarded as abomination by adherents of the dreaded Odo cult.

...IF YOU READ FURTHER,

According to an eye witness the victim, a native of Umu-enenke hamlet, Aku, was in
front of their house where she sells some petty articles to eke-out a living, when a
frenetic horde of Odo masquerades stormed the compound and snatched one of the
twin children of a mother related to the victim, apparently to extort money from her.
When they later returned the child, the victim was said to have uttered some statements
that angered the masquerades as a result of which they descended on her with canes and
stripped her naked before a crowd of villagers, said a witness.

THEN TELL ME....

where is the truth between these two paragraphs? please let's learn to read between the lines before we publishing such stories.

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Posted: at 30-03-2011 05:09 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie

But come o... This Enugu masquerades, are they suffering from women-nakedness deficiency syndrome? As in, do they lack female company, have they never seen a naked women before that they are itching to see it in the full glare of the general public? I no blame dem sha. Dem never see woman wey go equally strip them naked naim make. Stupid cavemen!!!

Posted: at 30-03-2011 06:44 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming

Pure stupidity!  the ignorant masquerade need to be locked up
for six tortured mouth that`s an assault on the poor lady

Posted: at 30-03-2011 06:58 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming

 

Posted: at 30-03-2011 08:32 PM (14 years ago) | Grande Master