Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare Nkechinyere Ugwu said Ukaegbu will be brought to book to serve as a deterrent to others that may engage in similar acts. She stated this while addressing journalists in her office at the State Secretariat in Owerri, the Imo State capital. She said she was moved by what she saw in a video that went viral on social media, where the man was seen beating and cutting the widow with a knife.
The commissioner further explained that upon investigation, it was learnt that the man in question was arrested by the police following the incident but was later released without proper arraignment after six weeks in police custody and that after his release, he went back and started threatening the widow and her son, which prompted his rearrest for the proper judicial process to be followed.