Women inheritance: S/Court judgement is an attack against Igbo tradition — Woman says

The  Supreme Court has upheld the right of a female child to inherit properties of her father on the grounds that it is discriminatory and conflicts with the provision of the constitution.

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However a lady identified as oderacollins on twitter reacted to Supreme Court’s decision saying that it is an attack on the igbo tradition and a function of misplaced priority.

Daily Times reports that the Igbo age-long law and custom which forbid a female child from inheriting her late father’s estate.

Supreme Court in its judgement held that the Court of Appeal, Lagos was right to have voided the Igbo native law and custom that disinherit female children. Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, who read the lead judgment, held that: “No matter the circumstances of the birth of a female child, such a child is entitled to an inheritance from her late father’s estate.

“Consequently, the Igbo customary law, which disentitles a female child from partaking in the sharing of her deceased father’s estate is breach of Section 42(1) and (2) of the Constitution, a fundamental rights provision guaranteed to every Nigerian.

“The said discriminatory customary law is void as it conflicts with Section 42(1) and (2) of the Constitution. In the light of all that I have been saying, the appeal is dismissed. In the spirit of reconciliation, parties are to bear their own costs,” Justice Rhodes-Vivour said.

Justices Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, Clara Bata Ogunbiyi, Kumai Bayang Aka’ahs and John Inyang Okoro, who were part of the panel that heard the appeal, agreed with the lead judgment.

Meanwhile according to twitter user identified as Ikechuchwu, the reason is many outsiders wants to inherit Igbo man property in the Name of we  are married to your daughter if it works for them they will kill to marry an Igbo Woman just to inherit Igbo man property.