I learnt the women, said they came under the umbrella of civil society groups in the Southeast and Igbo Women Organisations, urged the government and the police to investigate the incident.
The Abia State police command had previously explained why it suspended investigations into the gang rape that happened in its Abia State University. The state police command said the girl-victim consented to the rape.
An online website monitoring the case reported that commenting on a DVD tape sent to his CP to expedite investigations into the activities of the criminal gang, J.G. Micloth, the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Abia State Police command Criminal Investigation Department said the lady had consented to the gang crime.
He was quoted as saying that after watching the DVD, he said he did not see the young lady resist the rape.
However a reward to any person with information that could lead to the arrest of the perpetrators or identification of the rape victim of N500,000 still stands.
The women,came into Umuahia with two buses, and were stopped from entering the Government House by the Divisional Police Officer of Umuahia. He referred them to the Central Police Station where they were addressed by some senior police officers who pleaded with them to return home as investigation was still ongoing.
The police discouraged them from protesting in Umuahia in order not to create the impression that the incident occured in the state.
The leader of the group, Nma Odi, a civil right activists, said they came to Umuahia to urge the governor and the police to properly investigate the incident.
She said the rape and other maltreatment of women could no longer continue in any part of Igboland.
"It can't continue. We came to tell our governor that this will not continue. That investigation should be deeper. We are helping the governor to rescue Abia, to rescue Igboland.
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