Man Blinds Friend With Acid

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The police at Lamgbasa Division, Ajah, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have arrested a menial job worker, Dada Adewunmi, 31, for allegedly pouring a liquid substance suspected to be acid on his best friend’s face.

Adewunmi, it was gathered, poured the acid on the victim, Mayowa Kolapo, a.k.a. Baba Ibadan, during a scuffle over request to buy N10 cigarette.

He was arraigned before the Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on a 1-count charge of felony and causing grievous bodily harm.

The incident occurred at Akins Powerline, Addo village, Ajah, Lagos State.

A police source told P.M.NEWS that the accused poured acid on Kolapo’s face for refusing to give him N10 to buy cigarette after they had finished eating food inside their make-shift apartment.

An attempt by the accused to flee after the act was foiled by angry residents who arrested and handed him over to the police.

The victim was rushed to the hospital where doctors are battling to see if he could still use his remaining eye to see as the right one had gone blind.

During interrogation, the accused allegedly admitted pouring acid on his friend’s face, adding that he did not know what came over him.

“We are the best of friends. We eat and sleep together inside the same room,” he added.

Narrating his ordeal to P.M.NEWS at his residence in Addo Village, Ajah, Kolapo said: “We both came back from where we went to lay tiles at a building construction site at 10p.m. and I gave him N500 to buy N300 food for us to eat.

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“After eating, he demanded for N10 to buy cigarette and I told him I don’t have. He became angry and wanted to take the N200 balance to buy cigarette. I resisted this by collecting the money from him.

“The next thing he did was to enter his room, bring out a plate full of acid and poured it on my face and my two eyes went blind instantly. I fainted and later found myself in the hospital the next day.

“As I talk to you now, one of my eyes is totally blind and doctors have told me in the three hospitals I have been treated that I should do a follow-up treatment on the left eye or I will go blind completely.

“Now, the problem is how to get money to do a follow-up.

“I am calling on well-meaning Nigerians and non-government organisations to come to my aid to enable me see again,” he appealed.

After investigation, Adewunmi was charged before the Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on a 1-count charge punishable under Section 335 of the Criminal Code, Cap. 17, Vol. 11, Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2003.

The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge and the presiding magistrate, Mrs. Oshodi Makanju granted him bail in the sum of N300,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the matter till 28 June, 2011.

The accused was ordered to be remanded when he could not meet his bail conditions.

—Paul Iyoghojie

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