{"id":238547,"date":"2025-12-24T19:40:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/inheritance-plot-to-evict-two-female-orphans-in-abia-community-crumbles-as-lawmaker-intervenes\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:40:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:40:38","slug":"inheritance-plot-to-evict-two-female-orphans-in-abia-community-crumbles-as-lawmaker-intervenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/inheritance-plot-to-evict-two-female-orphans-in-abia-community-crumbles-as-lawmaker-intervenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Inheritance: Plot to evict\u00a0 two female orphans in Abia community crumbles, as lawmaker intervenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>An alleged plot by some members of Okorie family to evict two female orphans from their father\u2019s\u00a0 house has failed in Eluoma Uzuakoli\u00a0 community of Bende LGA of <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>State.<\/p>\n<p>This followed the prompt intervention of the member representing Bende South constituency in <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>State House of Assembly, Emmanuel Ndubuisi, who visited the family on Tuesday to prevent the outbreak of crises in the family.<\/p>\n<p>The two sisters, Kelechi Okorie and Chinwendu Okorie had on Monday, cried out to Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/Alex\">Alex <\/a>Otti and human rights activist to save them from being evicted from their late parents\u2019 house.<\/p>\n<p>According to the two sisters, a senior\u00a0 male relative\u00a0 and a\u00a0 female\u00a0 family member allegedly stripped them of family inheritance and were on the verge of evicting them from their father\u2019s house after the death of their parents, on the claims that they were girl-children who have no rights in the family.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy generated by the orphans, created tension in the family and\u00a0 the community with some\u00a0 human rights and girl-child activists calling for thorough investigation of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>But in a swift response, the members representing Bende South constituency in <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>State House of Assembly, Emmanuel Ndubuisi visited the family on Tuesday to douse the tension.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker who is an indigene of Uzuakoli, on arrival at the family, sued for peace\u00a0 and made it clear that it is illegal\u00a0 to evict female children from their\u00a0 \u00a0family house on gender basis.<\/p>\n<p>Ndubuisi promised that the matter will\u00a0 justice will be done on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the two girls, Kelechi and Chinwendu on Wednesday, issued a joint statement thanking human rights activist, Journalists and their Facebook followers for not coming to our rescue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey wanted to evict us because they said we\u00a0 are women,\u00a0 but you people were there for us. We are very grateful,\u201d the two\u00a0 sisters said in appreciation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alleged plot by some members of Okorie family to evict two female orphans from their father\u2019s\u00a0 house has failed in Eluoma Uzuakoli\u00a0 community of Bende LGA of Abia State. This followed the prompt intervention of the member representing Bende South constituency in Abia State House of Assembly, Emmanuel Ndubuisi, who visited the family on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":238548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[176],"tags":[199,2529],"class_list":["post-238547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abia","tag-abia","tag-inheritance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/abia-lawmaker.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}