The Most Hated Family in Nigeria and What They Did to Ochanya (Ochanya Ogbanje)

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Ochanya Ogbanje lived through something no child should ever have experienced.

At just seven years old, her life was allegedly placed in the hands of people who were supposed to protect her. Years later, Ochanya was dead, and the circumstances surrounding her life and death would trigger outrage across Nigeria.

What happened inside that family? How did a child endure years of suffering without being protected? And why did the case become one of Nigeria's most controversial stories of child sexual abuse, exploitation and justice?

In this episode, we follow Ochanya Ogbanje's story, the people at the centre of it, and the events that eventually brought the case into the public eye.

Some stories are difficult to hear.

This is one of them.

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