OUR SONS RAPE US ON A DAILY BASIS � IMO CHRISTIAN MOTHERS CRY OUT

Imo Christian mothers cry out
Christian Mothers in Mgbishii, a rural community
in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area in Imo
state have cried out to the government and the
Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiatical
Province, Dr. Anthony Obinna, over alleged
atrocities being committed by their sons and
daughters in the area.
According to Vanguard, the women made this
appeal during a recent visit to the Catholic
Archbishop at the Maria Assumpta Catholic
Cathedral in Owerri.
�We are raped and molested by our own
children. You cannot come to Mgbuishii and
return home safely because of the crime rate�
the women said.
According to the women, they have complained to
the state government and other security agents
over the high rate of crime being committed by
their children but all their complaints have not
been answered.
�We are angry because government is not
looking at our direction at all. We have been
completely abandoned for years. Now we have no
good roads, no electricity, no market, nothing is
going on in our place. To make things worse, we
are now suffering from insecurity� they said
The women decried the lack of police presence
within their community. They say their sons have
become so wayward that they beat up any police
man who tries to intervene during any criminal
activity within the community.
�Each time we report cases to the police and
they manage to send their men at all, the
criminals beat them(policemen) up because they
(criminals) parade more sophisticated weapons
than what the policemen have. We needed police
escort to get here (Maria Assumpta Cathedral)
and we will also need them to go back home�
they said
The women also said they are thinking of
relocating from their villages to safer places in
Rivers state. They say even the catholic priest in
their community is also threatening to leave their
community
�Even the Reverend Father in our place is
complaining and threatening to go away. About
two weeks ago, some reverend sisters visited our
place and were waylaid on the road and robbed.
We have a lot of problems and that is why the
women have come to complain to the Archbishop,
who is our father in the lord� they said
The Archbishop after listening to all their
complains prayed for the women.