AwkaAnambra warns that denying women inheritance risks 4 years’ jail.
Section 22 of the state’s 2017 violence law makes gender-based disinheritance an offence.
Attorney-General Tobechukwu Nweke ordered police to send case files to his office, where a gender-violence unit prosecutes.
Supreme Court rulings already declare such exclusion unconstitutional, yet some people in Nigeria still practise it, Nweke said.
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- Premium Times Nigeria
- directs police prosecution under Violence Against Persons Law with up to 4-year sentences; cites Supreme Court's prior ruling invalidating gender-based inheritance exclusions
Sources: Premium Times Nigeria